Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
shoreweed . - noun Same as
St. Augustine grass .
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Examples
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She sat down on the ground, now, the long shore-grass swelling up around her, thrusting her fingers into the pools of eddying water, with a far-off sense of quiet and justice and cold beneath there.
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Wherever they could, the little shell-fish scrambled about and fought their miniature battles in one-inch water; but at the edge of the tall shore-grass there was no water at all, unless in the mud, and the shell-fish waited, by hundreds, for the tide.
Say and Seal, Volume I Susan Warner 1852
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