salt grass

American  

noun

1. any of several grasses, as Distichlis spicata, that grow in salt marshes or meadows or in alkali soil.

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Etymology

Origin of salt grass

First recorded in 1695–1705

Example Sentences

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salt grass

They shuffle over the wet sand and coir netting with George Blomberg, one of the Port’s senior environmental managers, planting native salt grass and tufted hair grass to help restore an eroded habitat.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2021

I even planted some milkweed, violets, and wispy salt grass for the caterpillars—you know, when butterflies are in the larval stage.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

The houses were thatched with a coarse salt grass, called by the natives zacahuiste.

From A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams

"Au revoir," reiterated Marianne, and turned on her way to the village down the trail that wound through the salt grass out to the road skirting the bay.

From A Village of Vagabonds by F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley) Smith

Along its upper margin is a rank growth of reeds and salt grass.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various