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Definition of Beach grass
1. Noun. Tough grasses with strong roots that can grow on exposed sandy shores.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beach Grass
Literary usage of Beach grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1896)
"The setting out of the beach grass was undertaken in May last, ... There is hardly
any section along the seashore where beach grass could not be used to ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Grasses and Forage Plants: Comprising Their Natural by Charles Louis Flint (1857)
"beach grass is of but little value except to prevent our loose, sandy beaches
from being drifted about by the wind. ,We have but one species, ..."
3. Grasses and Forage Plants: A Practical Treatise, Comprising Their Natural by Charles Louis Flint (1860)
"They recommended an act to prevent the destruction of beach grass, and reported
that the sum of thirty-six hundred dollars would be necessary to set out ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1893)
"I have also seen it placed on top of a bunch of old beach grass stubs surrounded
by beach peas, which is a favorite location. ..."
5. Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau (1908)
"Some of the ridges of beach-grass which we saw were planted by government many
years ago, to preserve the harbor of Provincetown and the extremity of the ..."
6. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture \ by Peter Henderson (1910)
"Congress appropriated, between the years of 1826 and 1889, about twenty-eight
thousand dollars, which were expended in setting out beach-grass near the ..."
7. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1914)
"On beach, sparse grasses; beach-grass dunes; dry blue-grass, sandy loam soil;
dry stubble-field; aspens, in bluegrass; aspens, open situations; ..."
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