salt grass

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noun

any of several grasses, as Distichlis spicata, that grow in salt marshes or meadows or in alkali soil.

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Origin of salt grass

First recorded in 1695–1705

That sea wall is low and long; sea-pinks grow on the salt grass that passes away into shingle at its foot.
Ceres' Runaway|Alice Meynell
The way was through a pebbly waste of beach and salt-grass, and a sea-scrub of grey bushes.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay|Maurice Hewlett
Kitty throws herself back in the dry salt-grass with which the whole of our little peninsula is bedded.
A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories|Mary Hallock Foote
And last the smell of the salt grass country, which is the beginning of other things that are the end of the mesa trail.
The Land of Little Rain|Mary Austin

Then he dropped to earth, in a bed of withered salt-grass all awash with the full tide of Tantramar.
The Kindred of the Wild|Charles G. D. Roberts