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Definition of Grass wrack
1. Noun. Submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts.
Group relationships: Genus Zostera, Zostera
Generic synonyms: Aquatic Plant, Hydrophyte, Hydrophytic Plant, Water Plant
Literary usage of Grass wrack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"Wrack is an old Norse name for sea weed thrown ashore, this being called grass
wrack in distinction from the proper sea weeds or ..."
2. Rambles on the Riviera by Eduard Strasburger (1906)
"name of "Mattress Grass-wrack", because it is much used in more northerly latitudes
... Ligurian Grass- wrack grows at a far greater depth than the Zostera. ..."
3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Coasts of Europe, Asia and N. America, Eel-grass, Grass-weed, Grass-wrack,
Sea-grass, Sea-wrack* Barnacle-grass, Bellware, Sweet-grass, Tiresome-weed, ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... grass-wrack, also lyme-grass; lit. ' sea-halm,' < Icel.marr (= Norw. mar = AS.
mere), the sea, ..."
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