beach grass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of beach grass
An Americanism dating back to 1675–85
Example Sentences
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The collaborative argues that the complex ecosystem in the dunes requires free-blowing sands to function, and that wildlife is threatened by the effects of invasive beach grass.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2021
The gulls made makeshift nests from withered beach grass.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2021
Below it, Whiffen Spit, knitted with beach grass, juts out between the calm Sooke Basin and the wide open Strait of Juan de Fuca.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2017
She seized the opportunity when Rohan flubbed a simple-looking but obscure Scandinavian-derived word, “marram,” which means a beach grass.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 2, 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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