beach grass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of beach grass
An Americanism dating back to 1675–85
Example Sentences
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On nicer days, pedal the eight-plus-mile Discovery Trail past beach grass, dunes and Sitka spruces.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2023
The gulls made makeshift nests from withered beach grass.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021
They set up their summer camps within dunes blanketed with beach grass and sand pea, amid thickets of bayberry, oak and red cedar.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2021
Unflappable to the end, Ananya seized the opportunity when her steely opponent, Rohan Rajeev, flubbed a simple-looking but obscure Scandinavian-derived word, “marram,” which means a beach grass.
From Washington Times • Jun. 1, 2017
In good faith, Dad moved the dining room table, the chairs and his pew out onto the beach grass at the side of our cottage, where the newsreel man said the light would be best.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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