Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common grass of northern shores, Ammophila arundinacea. See
Ammophila . Also marrum, marum, matweed, and halm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A coarse grass found on sandy beaches (
Ammophila arundinacea ). See Beach grass, underbeach .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Ammophila arundinacea, a
coarse grass found onsandy beaches .
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Examples
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In Culbin it was the removal of turf for fuel and building materials, and the marram or bent grass along the seashore for thatch, that allowed the wind to whip up the sand.
Weatherwatch: A storm that made a desert on the Moray Firth 2011
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These contrasted with the areas of deep yellow broom blossoms and the shiny greyish green leaves of the marram grass.
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At the end of the road, I stashed the bike in the marram grass and followed a trail over the dunes to a beach lapped by quiet surf.
Land of Green Gables 2008
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The mobile outer dunes are sparsely vegetated with marram grass Ammophila arenaria, and camarina Corema album, with buckthorn-juniper Rhamno-Juniperetum macrocarpas communities The dry dunes inland have Rhamno-Juniperetum sophora communities.
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At the end of the road, I stashed the bike in the marram grass and followed a trail over the dunes to a beach lapped by quiet surf.
Land of Green Gables 2008
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They were restricted to open areas of bare sand with a little marram grass and scattered clumps of the caterpillars 'only known food plant, the yellowy reddish-blossomed kidney vetch.
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Last week's winds have swept the fine white sand across the face of the dunes, half filling the familiar hollows and frosting the marram grass.
Country diary: South Uist Christine Smith 2010
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With its rolling dunes, marram grass and breathtaking ocean vistas, Barnbougle could be easily mistaken for Ballybunion on Ireland's west coast--with wider fairways, different accents and the possibility of an off-course encounter with the Tasmanian Devil a carnivorous marsupial the size of a smallish dog that really exists.
World's Top Places To Play Golf Chris Santella 2009
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Buckets and spades hung up in the beach hut, the Primus stove put back on the garage shelf as autumn winds sigh through the marram grass.
Archive 2007-09-01 Peter Ashley 2007
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Buckets and spades hung up in the beach hut, the Primus stove put back on the garage shelf as autumn winds sigh through the marram grass.
Beach Life No.1 Peter Ashley 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word marram
"When the monster didn't
show the marram
was permitted to reoccupy
the fortified strip"
- from "Holkham Gap" by W.G. Sebald, translated by Iain Galbraith, in Across the Land and the Water - p 68 of the Random House hardcover
August 15, 2012