eel-grass

Every few minutes the long eel-grass of the shallow bay choked the propeller of the motor-boat.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

We had a hard snow-storm the other day, and the tide came nearly up to the seats of our boat-house, and the next day it was away down to the eel-grass.

Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

Two forms, the ditch-moss (_Elodea_) (Fig.  91, _G_, _I_) and eel-grass

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

Helped by the current he had swum a mile when the stream spread out into a bay that was a mile long and nearly as wide, which was filled with eel-grass and covered with moss.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

_J_, male inflorescence of eel-grass (_Vallisneria_), × 1.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

There, to be sure, was the bit of ice he had taken fright at before, nearer than ever; but it floated as harmlessly as the cake just beside it, from whose edges he had gleaned rootlets of young and tender eel-grass not half an hour ago.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

Any other seeds, such as those of pond lily and eel-grass, that germinate readily under water, will do as well as rice.

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

Unfortunately, the shore was at the end further from the inn, his clothes were soaking, and his tobacco and whiskey flask in the locker, already under water in the midst of mud and eel-grass.

Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

I thought it was eel-grass; then I thought it was an eel.

Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

After looking for a long time, Ned made out the bow of the submerged little canoe sticking out from a bunch of moss in the eel-grass.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock