Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
spike-grass .
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Other native vegetation is mainly grassland composed of seacoast bluestem, sea-oats, common reed, gulfdune paspalum, and soilbind morning-glory.
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Here too are grasses rare and beautiful -- the feathery fox-tail, the tall, loose-branched sea-oats, and many others with names unknown, which you may see ornamenting the famous palmetto hats.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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The sands that border it are covered with a network of beautiful convolvulus, tufts of sea-oats with nodding plumes, and picturesque clumps of Spanish bayonet (_Yucca gloriosa_) with pyramids of snowy flowers.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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