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Bahama grass
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English
Noun
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en Bermuda grass.
en 1954 1957 w:Ian Fleming Live and Let Die (novel) Live and Let Die London Pan Books The Everglades 125 Bond paid off the cab at The Everglades, a group of neat white-and-yellow clapboard cottages set on three sides of a square of Bahama grass which ran fifty yards down to a bone-white beach and then to the sea.
en 2023 w:Zadie Smith w:The Fraud Hamish Hamilton 299 In the meantime, Tichborne worked himself into a fury about Bahama grass. It had been planted years ago by Ballard, intended as a pretty border round the estate, but had proved rapacious and near impossible to eradicate. It dug itself in everywhere, spread rapidly, sucked the life out of the soil, killed off native species, and was altogether a blight upon the land.