1. (loan) (noun) grass.

1. (loan) (noun) grass.

1. (noun) hunangāmoho, plumed tussock grass, snow grass, Chionochloa conspicua - a large tussock grass over 1 m tall with broad green leaves looking rather like toetoe. The flowers are carried on slightly arching stems. Its name implies that takahē hid amongst it.

1. (noun) blue grass, blue wheat grass, Anthosachne kingiana subsp. multiflora - an indigenous grass found from the Three Kings Islands south throughout North Island to the South Island from Nelson to Banks Peninsula. Primarily a coastal species of cliff faces and rocky ground.

1. (noun) grass, meadow rice grass, Microlaena stipoides - a native grass which has a creeping habit and grows to 30 cm high, with stiff, narrow, dark green leaves that taper sharply. Found throughout lowland Aotearoa/New Zealand in open forest and scrub.

1. (noun) hook sedge, hook grass, bastard grass, Uncinia uncinata - a grasslike hooked sedge native to Aotearoa/New Zealand, the Society Islands, and Hawai‘i. Its natural habitat is from the coast up to 1000 metres, and is found in areas ranging from native forest to shrubland. Forms dense mounds of orange-red, or green, arching leaves about 50 cm high.

1. (noun) hook sedge, hook grass, bastard grass, Uncinia uncinata - a grasslike hooked sedge native to Aotearoa/New Zealand, the Society Islands, and Hawai‘i. Its natural habitat is from the coast up to 1000 metres, and is found in areas ranging from native forest to shrubland. Forms dense mounds of orange-red, or green, arching leaves about 50 cm high.

1. (noun) eelgrass, seagrass, Zostera spp. - native marine plants with olive-green, narrow, grass-like leaves which grow below mid-tide, forming wet carpets on muddy sand flats and saltmarshes throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand.

1. (noun) speargrass, Aciphylla squarrosa and Aciphylla colensoi - plants which provided an exudation used as a scent. The plants have a tuft of spear-like leaves, each up to 1 m long, and a large flower-stalk up to 2 m high, the head of which is covered with long sharp spikes.

1. (noun) New Zealand wind grass, Lachnagrostis filiformis - common throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand in coastal to subalpine open situations and often found as an urban weed, especially in waste land around puddles and in muddy ground. Common around lakes, and fringing ponds, streams and on wetland margins. Slender, upright, tufted, light to yellow green, annual or short-lived perennial grass up to 700 mm tall.

1. (noun) New Zealand wind grass, Lachnagrostis filiformis - common throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand in coastal to subalpine open situations and often found as an urban weed, especially in waste land around puddles and in muddy ground. Common around lakes, and fringing ponds, streams and on wetland margins. Slender, upright, tufted, light to yellow green, annual or short-lived perennial grass up to 700 mm tall.

1. (noun) tussock grass, bluegrass, Elymus solandri - a grass found in rocky areas and tussock land in both the North and South Islands. Forms a tufted clump with flat, blue-grey leaves.

1. (noun) New Zealand wind grass, Lachnagrostis filiformis - common throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand in coastal to subalpine open situations and often found as an urban weed, especially in waste land around puddles and in muddy ground. Common around lakes, and fringing ponds, streams and on wetland margins. Slender, upright, tufted, light to yellow green, annual or short-lived perennial grass up to 700 mm tall.

1. (noun) New Zealand wind grass, Lachnagrostis filiformis - common throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand in coastal to subalpine open situations and often found as an urban weed, especially in waste land around puddles and in muddy ground. Common around lakes, and fringing ponds, streams and on wetland margins. Slender, upright, tufted, light to yellow green, annual or short-lived perennial grass up to 700 mm tall.

1. (noun) New Zealand wind grass, Lachnagrostis filiformis - common throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand in coastal to subalpine open situations and often found as an urban weed, especially in waste land around puddles and in muddy ground. Common around lakes, and fringing ponds, streams and on wetland margins. Slender, upright, tufted, light to yellow green, annual or short-lived perennial grass up to 700 mm tall.

1. (noun) inanga, whitebait, Galaxias maculatus - a small silvery-white native fish with a slender body. Found in streams, rivers, lakes, swamps and pools throughout the coastal regions of Aotearoa/New Zealand up to 215 km inland. Forms small to large schools. Maximum size 190 mm. Adults mature at 1 year and migrate downstream on new or full moons to spawn when the spring tide floods marginal vegetation. Eggs are left amongst the vegetation out of the water and hatch at the next spring tide.

1. (noun) grass grub beetle, Costelytra zealandica - a chafer beetle which eats the leaves of trees, shrubs and vegetables in the summer and lives in the soil as a grub in winter, eating the roots of grass and other plants.

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1. (noun) couch grass, twitch, Elymus repens - a very common perennial species of grass native to most of Europe, Asia and northwest  Africa. Considered an invasive pest being very difficult to remove from garden environments as the thin rhizomes become entangled among the roots of shrubs and perennials.

1. (noun) scented holy grass, Hierochloe redolens - a sweet-scented grass found in wet grassland and scrub throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand. Grows in clumps less than 1 m tall, with flat, bright green blades on long stems.

1. (noun) grass tree, spiderwood, Dracophyllum latifolium and mountain neinei, Dracophyllum traversii - native shrubs to 12 m which look a little like a cabbage tree, having clusters of long tapering leaves at the tips of their branches. Found in northern North Island to as far south as Taranaki and Lake Waikaremoana and in the South Island from Puponga to the Nile River in hill and mountain forests.