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salt grass

noun

  1. any of several grasses, as Distichlis spicata, that grow in salt marshes or meadows or in alkali soil.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of salt grass1

First recorded in 1695–1705

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Example Sentences

That sea wall is low and long; sea-pinks grow on the salt grass that passes away into shingle at its foot.

The way was through a pebbly waste of beach and salt-grass, and a sea-scrub of grey bushes.

Kitty throws herself back in the dry salt-grass with which the whole of our little peninsula is bedded.

And last the smell of the salt grass country, which is the beginning of other things that are the end of the mesa trail.

Then he dropped to earth, in a bed of withered salt-grass all awash with the full tide of Tantramar.

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