spinifex
/ˈspaɪnɪfeks/noun
1- a grass with coarse spiny leaves and spiny flower heads which break off and are blown about like tumbleweed, occurring from East Asia to Australia刺属植物。
1.1
- Genus Spinifex, family Gramineae.刺属, 禾本科。
词源
early 19th cent.: modern Latin, from Latin spina 'thorn' + -fex from facere 'make'.