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saltgrass

noun

Etymology

From salt + grass.

  1. inherited from *gʰreh₁-✻ — “to grow”
  2. inherited from *grasą✻ — “grass”
  3. inherited from *gras✻
  4. inherited from græs
  5. inherited from gras
  6. compounded as saltgrass — “salt + grass”

Definitions

  1. American grass of species Distichlis spicata, that can tolerate alkali and salty…

    American grass of species Distichlis spicata, that can tolerate alkali and salty conditions.

    • Palmer parted the towering saltgrass and pickleweed downwind of the elk.

  2. Similar salt-tolerant species in the genus Distichlis.

    • The perennial saltgrass nipa (Distichlis palmeri, Poaceae) is endemic to northern Gulf of California tidal marshes flooded with hypersaline seawater.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA