cordgrass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cordgrass
Example Sentences
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Wading into the marsh, shovels and buckets in hand, the researchers and their students collected cordgrass along with the muddy sediment samples that cling to their roots.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
Treading carefully on the soggy ground, I pushed through the dense cordgrass to inspect them.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
Some of the circular nests of smooth cordgrass are built atop mangrove stands, others on grassy hillocks.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2022
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
The mud had a frozen brown crust and the cordgrass was weighed down by ice.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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