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eelgrass

Zostera \Zos"te*ra\, n. [NL.] (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Naiadace[ae], or Pondweed family. Zostera marina is commonly known as sea wrack, and eelgrass.

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eelgrass

n. A plant ('':w:Zostera marina''), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.

WordNet
eelgrass
  1. n. submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts [syn: grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina]

  2. submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia [syn: tape grass, wild celery, Vallisneria spiralis]

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Eelgrass

Eelgrass is a common name for several plants and may refer to:

  • Zostera, marine eelgrass
  • Vallisneria, freshwater eelgrass

Usage examples of "eelgrass".

Ray gestured to take in the water, the bobbing floats, the tall, glossily wet eelgrass on the verge where a lone egret stood like a marble pillar.

But the tendrils were more like tangled seaweed, or eelgrass, and beneath what she realized was not seaweed at all, but matted, human hair, glinted the glassy eyes of a dead girl!

Chloe was on the front steps of the Sea Shanty, sweeping away the eelgrass that the storm had brought to their door.

It had a tarpaper roof, and its walls were stuffed with eelgrass for warmth against the New England winters.

She picked up a leaf of eelgrass growing behind the cafeteria building.

The shoreline was thick with the dying and the already dead, with pools of moonlight and eelgrass and the sorrowful sound of the thrush, waking in their nests.

I could place a single blade of eelgrass between my fingers and whistle so loudly the oysters buried in the mud would spit at us.

I knew that every monster had a beating heart, even those with scales, even those with flame-hot breath that could light the eelgrass on fire, even those whose faces were too terrible to see.

The eelgrass shimmered and the sand was covered with little scrambling crabs.

Bottle green and clear down ten feet to eelgrass waving gently on a mud bottom.

Not quite an acre in size, it was shaped like a cloven hoof, the split on its northeastern It side forming a cove that plunged to a depth of at least a hundred fathoms and was densely forested with eelgrass along its inshore ledges.

But in these waters there was so damn much eelgrass that the line would just get tangled up in it.

Between the circulating currents, profuse eelgrass, and marine scavengers, it was a rough environment in which to dredge for a corpse.

He tried to wring more air from his primary tank as he emerged into the eelgrass, but could scarcely get enough to fill his chest.

When I rereached my starting point I found in the wrack along the high-tide line where sandfleas jumped not my familiar jug but, amazingly, a clear glass bottle, unlike any I'd ever seen, wreathed in eelgrass full of sand and tiny mussels.