mangrove

• We passed vast numbers of the Florida cormorants-- a small species, which breeds in the mangrove islets. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
• We had nearly reached a mangrove island, called Sanibel, when a squall from the eastward struck the schooner and almost laid her over on her beam-ends. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
• This power in a fish has something of the same awesome effect on an observer that might possibly result were a horse to raise its head and smile at him Seeing that the coast was clear, for Disco stood as motionless as a mangrove tree, blenny hopped upon the dry land. —  Black Ivory
• It was fringed with a broad belt of mangrove-trees standing on numberless branching roots which extended far into the water. —  The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela
• The fury of the wind, which, now shifting, blew partly across and partly down the lake, made it impossible for us to proceed in the direction we desired; and an opening among the mangrove-trees, which my uncle hoped might prove the mouth of a stream, appearing, he steered towards it Scarcely had we got the boat's head round when the gale came down upon us with redoubled fury, and sent her flying along with only two oars out at a furious speed. —  The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela

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