cordgrass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cordgrass
Example Sentences
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The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation had funded the group to study the symbiosis between the cordgrass and the sulfur-cycling microbes for the summer of 2020, but the pandemic shut down field work.
From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2023
Treading carefully on the soggy ground, I pushed through the dense cordgrass to inspect them.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2023
More than half of the main island is salt marsh, and the knee-high cordgrass and black needlerush seemingly stretched to the Earth’s curve.
From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022
But he fears the destruction of the wetlands he loves: The soft waving cordgrass where black rails hide, the pelicans diving down over the lapping water to catch fish.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2022
She walked through the bulrushes and cordgrass to the very edge of the marsh’s waterline.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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