Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small genus of grasses growing on the sandy shores of Europe and North America; the sea-reed.
- noun In entomology, a genus of long-bodied fossorial aculeate hymenopterous insects, commonly called sand-wasps, belonging to the family Sphegidæ. A. pictipennis (Walsh) is an example. See
digger-wasp .
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Examples
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The relict alluvial dune fields east of the Warrego River in Queensland support a diverse "heath" flora and several species at the western edge of their distribution such as Eucalyptus melanophloia, E. ammophila, Casuarina inophloia, and Xanthorrhoea johnsonnii.
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