What is "tape grass"

Tape \Tape\, n. [AS. t[ae]ppe a fillet. Cf. Tapestry, Tippet.]

1. A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.

2. A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.

   Red tape. See under Red.

   Tape grass (Bot.), a plant ( Vallisneria spiralis) with long ribbonlike leaves, growing in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fresh-water eelgrass, and, in Maryland, wild celery.

   Tape needle. See Bodkin, n., 4.

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