salt-grass

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noun A collective name of grasses growing in salt-meadows, consisting largely of species of Spartina.
noun The principal American salt-grass is Distichlis spicata, less properly called alkali-grass. This grass endures the salt of the sea-shore and the alkali of the interior, chiefly in moist ground. It serves as a sand-binder, and is eaten by stock where nothing better can be had. Also called sand-grass.
noun Same as rough-leafed salt-grass.

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An old man with radiation scars surrounding the chromed half of his face limped down a salt-grass covered dune.

i have watched the watchmen netcurmudgeon 2009
Small mangrove and salt-grass islets, shoals, sand-bars, and sand-spits in and near the mouths of the Halifax and Hillsboro Rivers, Florida.

Appendix B 1916
She made no allowance for prairie-dog holes, but went at racing speed through the rabbit weed and over the slippery salt-grass bumps.

A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912
The way was through a pebbly waste of beach and salt-grass, and a sea-scrub of grey bushes.

The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892
Kitty throws herself back in the dry salt-grass with which the whole of our little peninsula is bedded.

A Touch of Sun and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892
When Mr. Riepe arrived at JoCo Marsh, the largest and best preserved salt-grass section of the bay, hundreds of birds - Forster's terns, laughing gulls, osprey, willets, herons - were revolving in a circle over the water, a great avian feeding wheel feasting on marine life.

NYT > Home Page By ALAN FEUER 2011
When Mr. Riepe arrived at JoCo Marsh, the largest and best preserved salt-grass section of the bay, hundreds of birds - Forster's terns, laughing gulls, osprey, willets, herons - were revolving in a circle over the water, a great avian feeding wheel feasting on marine life.

NYT > Home Page By ALAN FEUER 2011