cord grass

British  

noun

1. Also called: rice grass. a coarse perennial grass of the genus Spartina, characteristically growing in mud or marsh

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cord grass

They eat the smooth cord grass that pokes up in the marshes and sea oats that protect the dunes.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2017

Goldenrod and smooth cord grass are now about waist-high.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 24, 2015

The familiar trappings of Wright's baroque realism turn up: the taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy.

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