Meanings of alang-alang in inglés

They'd scampered through the jungle and then the ravines, on up through the head-high kunai grass that clung to the slopes, thick and tooth-edged.

The sound again-merelythe mellow cadences of a swamp pheasant whooping among the blady grass.

Darts are also improvised from blady grass by two other methods, each a prototype of the spear and wommera.

Beyond the entanglement of the beach scrub the way was open, though rough, with granite boulders half hidden among rampant blady grass.

It was situated in a natural, symmetrical clearing, a circus hemmed in by sullen vegetation, and upon which no plant save blady grass ever invaded.

The "Wee-bah," another toy weapon (also obtained from blady grass), might be designated an arrow, the flight, though not the impulse, being similar.

When the ever-present cogon grass begins to invade a clearing, the young hemp is planted.

Here the way was choked with rank cogon grass, growing from eight to twelve feet high.