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Definition of Spartina
1. Noun. Grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands.
Exact synonyms: Genus Spartina
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Graminaceae, Family Gramineae, Family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, Grass Family, Poaceae
Member holonyms: Cord Grass, Cordgrass
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Genus, Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Graminaceae, Family Gramineae, Family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, Grass Family, Poaceae
Member holonyms: Cord Grass, Cordgrass
Definition of Spartina
1. Noun. cordgrass ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spartina
1. a salt-marsh grass of coastal regions [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spartina
Literary usage of Spartina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Grasses of Iowa by Louis Hermann Pammel, Julius Buel Weems, Carleton Roy Ball, F. Lamson-Scribner, Harry Foster Bain (1904)
"spartina Schreb Gen. P1. 43. 1789. Steud. Syn. P1. Glum. 214. ... spartina cynosuroides
Willd. Enum. 80. 1809. Watson and Coulter. Gray. Man. Bot. 627. ..."
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