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Definition of Elymus arenarius
1. Noun. A dune grass of the Pacific seacoast used as a sand binder.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elymus Arenarius
Literary usage of Elymus arenarius
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1793)
"Elymus arenarius. Linn. Sp. PL 122. Sm. Fl. Brit. 152. Huds.56. With. 170. ...
Elymus arenarius is found on the sandy coasts of Britain in various places, ..."
2. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"Both can also be used in the manner of Sparta for paper material, for tying and
for mats. Like Elymus arenarius, it is not touched by grazing ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Elymus arenarius L. Sp. PI. 83. 1753. Culms li°-8° tall, erect, simple, usually
softly pubescent at the summit. Sheaths smooth and glabrous, often glaucous, ..."
4. The Grasses of Great Britain by John Edward Sowerby, Charles Johnson (1861)
"... and only useful as colonizers, as exemplified in the British species, Elymus
arenarius, which, like the sea-reed, Ammophila arundinacea, and other sand- ..."
5. The Grasses of Britain by Richard PARNELL (1845)
"... and the uppermost floret not projecting beyond the glumes ;—whereas in Elymus
arenarius the lowermost floret is as long or longer than the glumes, ..."
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