SPARTINA PECTINMATA

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Meaning:

North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns

Synonyms:

freshwater cordgrass; prairie cordgrass; slough grass; Spartina pectinmata

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Spartina pectinmata" is a kind of...):

cord grass; cordgrass (any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders)

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