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Grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands
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spartina
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Spartina is a 1989 novel by American novelist John Casey . The novel won the National Book Award for 1989.
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. cordgrass (''Spartina'').
Usage examples of spartina.
Then Dallas would shovel the opened oysters onto picnic tables covered with newspapers and the perfume of those washed-down mollusks gave off a silvery, slightly metallic musk of a rained-on acre of spartina.
They'd passed the last corn milpas north of town, and the tree-shaded wagon trace was surrounded by spartina reeds to seaward and thickets of gumbo-limbo saplings on the higher ground to their left.