prairie cordgrass

prairie cordgrass
noun
North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns
Hypernyms: ↑cordgrass, ↑cord grass

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noun
: a cordgrass (Spartina pectinata) of No. America having leaves with scarious margins and glumes with long awns

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