HyperDic: grass_wrack

English > 1 sense of the expression grass wrack:
NOUNplantgrass wrack, eelgrass, sea wrack, Zostera marinasubmerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts
English > grass wrack: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningsubmerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts.
Synonymseelgrass, sea wrack, Zostera marina
Member ofZostera, genus Zostera(or in some classifications family Zosteraceae) small genus of widely distributed marine plants
Broaderaquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plantA plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus / lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth

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