cordgrass
English Thesaurus
1. any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | grass, |
| definition | : | narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | salt reed grass, spartina cynosuroides, |
| definition | : | tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | freshwater cordgrass, prairie cordgrass, slough grass, spartina pectinmata, |
| definition | : | North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus spartina, spartina, |
| definition | : | grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands (noun.plant) |
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