cordgrass
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Any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina;
Some important as coastal soil binders (synset 112160092)is a type of: grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as haysubtypes:- 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
belongs to: genus spartina, spartina - grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islandssame as: cord grass
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