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CORDGRASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders
Synonyms:
cord grass; cordgrass
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cordgrass" is a kind of...):
grass (narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cordgrass"):
salt reed grass; Spartina cynosuroides (tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows)
freshwater cordgrass; prairie cordgrass; slough grass; Spartina pectinmata (North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns)
Holonyms ("cordgrass" is a member of...):
genus Spartina; Spartina (grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands)