Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of grasses, of the tribe Paniceæ.

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  • noun cordgrass

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  • noun grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands

Etymologies

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From the genus name.

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Examples

  • Cattle grazed on the abundant spartina cordgrasses native to the saltwater meadows.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • Cattle grazed on the abundant spartina cordgrasses native to the saltwater meadows.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • Van Heerden's assessment team showed me around Casse-tete Island in Timbalier Bay, where new shoots of spartina grasses were sprouting in oiled marshes, and new leaves were growing on the first black mangroves I had ever seen that were actually black.

    The spill is gone? 2010

  • Cattle grazed on the abundant spartina cordgrasses native to the saltwater meadows.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • Cattle grazed on the abundant spartina cordgrasses native to the saltwater meadows.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • The roots of spartina grass help hold the marsh soil and provide a footing for oysters and ribbed mussels.

    Ecoregions of North Carolina and South Carolina (EPA) 2009

  • A soft, warm breeze rustled the sea oats and gracefully swayed the spartina grass, making ripples in the still waters that stretched in a half-moon around them.

    Forbidden Enchantment Bruhns, Nina 2007

  • The narrow wooden jetty behind the Inn stretched at least a hundred feet out into the sparkling inlet, past the shallows where the spartina and sea oats swayed near the shore and out into deeper water where you could tie up a boat or do some fishing if you were so inclined.

    Forbidden Enchantment Bruhns, Nina 2007

  • On both sides, spartina and needlerush arrowed from sparkling amber toward an immaculate blue sky.

    Break No Bones Reichs, Kathy 2006

  • The dominant plant species in coastal Louisiana is the spartina, better known as smooth cordgrass or salt-marsh cordgrass.

    KTBS.com - Local News 2010

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  • "It is said to be also used as a durable thatch; it is succulent and is eagerly eaten by cattle, imparting to their milk, butter, and flesh a strong rancid flavor locally known as a “thatchy” taste."

    --from the Century Dictionary

    March 31, 2011