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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 spi·ni·fex /ˈspaɪnəˌfɛks/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Spin·i·fex n.
 1. Bot. A genus of chiefly Australian grasses, the seeds of which bear an elastic spine. Spinifex hirsutus (black grass) and Spinifex longifolius are useful as sand binders. Spinifex paradoxusis a valuable perennial fodder plant. Also, a plant of this genus.
 2.  Any of several Australian grasses of the genus Tricuspis, which often form dense, almost impassable growth, their leaves being stiff and sharp-pointed.