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
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Examples
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Cattle grazed on the abundant spartina cordgrasses native to the saltwater meadows.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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Cattle grazed on the abundant spartina cordgrasses native to the saltwater meadows.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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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
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Cattle grazed on the abundant spartina cordgrasses native to the saltwater meadows.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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Cattle grazed on the abundant spartina cordgrasses native to the saltwater meadows.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010
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The roots of spartina grass help hold the marsh soil and provide a footing for oysters and ribbed mussels.
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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
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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
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On both sides, spartina and needlerush arrowed from sparkling amber toward an immaculate blue sky.
Break No Bones Reichs, Kathy 2006
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The dominant plant species in coastal Louisiana is the spartina, better known as smooth cordgrass or salt-marsh cordgrass.
ruzuzu commented on the word spartina
"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