cordgrass

[kawrd-gras, -grahs]

noun

1. any of several grasses of the genus Spartina, of coastal regions.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cordgrass¹

cord + grass

Example Sentences

Moreover, the researchers found that the same bacteria are associated with cordgrass, mangrove, and seagrass roots in coastal ecosystems across the planet.

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Treading carefully on the soggy ground, I pushed through the dense cordgrass to inspect them.

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Some of the circular nests of smooth cordgrass are built atop mangrove stands, others on grassy hillocks.

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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.

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She walked through the bulrushes and cordgrass to the very edge of the marsh’s waterline.

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