cordgrass

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

cordgrass - any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders cord grass grass - narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay genus Spartina, Spartina - grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands 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