Meaning of cordgrass | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of various species of coastal wetland grass in the genus Spartina.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Minutes away from downtown Cambridge, the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, a 27,000-acre expanse of sibilant cordgrass and murky channels, has one of the largest concentrations of nesting bald eagles along the Atlantic coast.”

“That grass – saltmarsh cordgrass, which can grow to be 7 feet tall – was being observed in New Smyrna Beach, Florida as part of a Fish and Wildlife Service program.”

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