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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of aquatic plants, of the order Naiadaceæ, type of the tribe Zostereæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Naiadaceæ, or Pondweed family. Zostera marina is commonly known as sea wrack, and eelgrass.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun (or in some classifications family Zosteraceae) small genus of widely distributed marine plants

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