cordgrass (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *cordgrass*:
NOUN	plant	cordgrass, cord grass	any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina

English > *cordgrass*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal / coastal soil binders.
Synonym	cord grass
Member of	Spartina, genus Spartina	grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands
Narrower	prairie cordgrass, freshwater cordgrass, slough grass, Spartina pectinmata	North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns
Narrower	salt reed grass, Spartina cynosuroides	tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows
Broader	grass	Narrow-leaved green herbage

HyperDic: cordgrass