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saw grass

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Also sawgrass

noun

  1. any of various sedges of the genus Cladium, of tropical and temperate regions, having spiny, serrated leaves.


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On an abandoned golf course, overgrown with shrubs and saw grass, you can hear the rushing water from 100 yards away.

From New York Times Mar. 22, 2023

On the other side of the path were fields of swaying saw grass and hardwood hammocks — dense stands of broad-leafed trees that grow on a slight rise of only a few inches.

From Washington Post Mar. 4, 2022

Scientists are counting on mangroves and other more salt-tolerant plants to migrate inland into the saw grass plains, establishing a new, natural bulwark against climate change.

From Seattle Times Dec. 3, 2019

It is part of the famed Everglades—a complex system of saw grass, mangroves and seagrass that is crucial to southern Florida’s water supplies, storm protection, fishing and tourism.

From Scientific American Jun. 21, 2019

The stony sand backed up to low dunes swaying with saw grass.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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