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- noun Ammophila arundinacea, a
coarse grass found onsandy beaches .
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Examples
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Three Random Words: nier = to deny oyat (m) = beachgrass
French Destinations 2010
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Three Random Words: nier = to deny oyat (m) = beachgrass
Characters 2009
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Dune vegetation: Native dunegrass series, European beachgrass series, Sand - verbena - beach bursage series.
Point Reyes 2009
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The dunes support a succession of plant communities, from bare dune through European beachgrass series and Sand - verbena - beach bursage series to Dune lupine - goldenbush series or Yellow bush lupine series.
Point Reyes 2009
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Dune vegetation: European beachgrass series, Sand - verbena - beach bursage series.
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And yet, when Captain Darius Nickerson, who made the most of his money selling fifty-foot lots of sand, beachgrass and ticks to summer people for bungalow sites -- when Captain Darius, grown purse-proud and vainglorious, expressed a desire for a henhouse with a mansard roof and
Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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There he would sprawl amid the beachgrass or upon the pine-needles and dream and think and, perhaps, ultimately write.
The Portygee Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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a dune covered with beachgrass and emerged upon the flat meadows which would soon be the flying field.
Shavings Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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