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Definition of Matweed
1. n. A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit.
Definition of Matweed
1. Noun. (botany) Any of several maritime grasses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Matweed
1. moorland grass [n -S]
Medical Definition of Matweed
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Matweed
Literary usage of Matweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... [were] at the first hour, or six of the clock. Fuller, Ch. Hist., VI. 2s7.
(.Dane».) matweed ... small matweed (see mat-gras«), (c) Ly- f/fiim Spartum, ..."
2. Transactions and Collections by American Antiquarian Society (1860)
"42, — English matweed, or helme (the other species being excluded, as not English,
... 548; called sen-matweed in England, and common to Europe and America. ..."
3. New-England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and by John Josselyn, Edward Tuckerman (1865)
"42, — English matweed, or helme (the other species being excluded, as not English,
... 548; called sea-matweed in England, and common to Europe and America. ..."
4. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1895)
"As to this matweed, the shore-dwellers sometimes cut and bleach the leaves of
the marram and weave them into coarse mats. It may be that from this the name ..."
5. A Manual of Forestry by William Schlich (1907)
"Attention is therefore directed to sand-grasses and sedges, and the best of these
for the purpose are :-— Sea marram, or matweed ..."
6. Archaeologia Americana: Transactions and Collections of the American by American Antiquarian Society (1860)
"42, — English matweed, or helme (the other species being excluded, as not English,
... 548; called sea-matweed in England, and common to Europe and America. ..."
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