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GRASS WRACK
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts
Synonyms:
eelgrass; grass wrack; sea wrack; Zostera marina
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("grass wrack" is a kind of...):
aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)
Holonyms ("grass wrack" is a member of...):
genus Zostera; Zostera ((or in some classifications family Zosteraceae) small genus of widely distributed marine plants)