Saw grass

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(Bot.) any one of certain cyperaceous plants having the edges of the leaves set with minute sharp teeth, especially the Cladium Mariscus of Europe, and the Cladium effusum of the Southern United States. Cf. Razor grass, under Razor.

See also: Saw

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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In 2010, he published a book of poems written on a Fellowship awarded by AIRIE, Artists in Residence in the Everglades, titled The One Good Bite in the Saw Grass Plant.
After a first insolvency last year, Scheufelen, a maker of specialty coated papers, saw grass paper as its way to broad and sunny uplands.
"I thought the day before yesterday when I saw grass on the pitch that it's going to be cut.
Then he wove bundles of two to four pieces of saw grass into the mesh.
you are the moss on the oak the saw grass in the field you are the
"I didn't even realize we overshot the runway until we saw grass outside the window." There were 159 passengers and crew aboard flight Z2272, Philippine officials told The Associated Press.
George Balmer, one of the volunteers who looks after the site, said he was "absolutely gutted" when he saw grass had been stolen.
JUST reading the article in The Chronicle about poor playing fields etc, I looked at the picture and saw grass and a goal, fair enough, no net.
Launching your boatfrom the ramps located on the Tamiami Trail, Mac's Fishing Camp, Holiday Park, Saw grass Recreation Park and along the canals of State Road 27 puts you right in the middle of the action.
"Then, out of the fog, I saw grass and it was about eight foot beneath us.
The ecologist in me has a special fondness for the Nammy nominated Peace From The Everglades, celebrating South Florida's iconic River of Grass ; Anglo settlers drove the Miccosukee into the Saw Grass with the mosquitoes and the Dengue, the alligators, the water moccasins; during the 18th and 19th centuries hoping the harsh conditions would be the end of them.
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