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salt·grass
orsalt grass (sôlt′grăs′)n.
Any of various grasses that grow in salt marshes and alkaline areas, especiallyDistichlis spicata, native to the Americas.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
salt′ grass`
n.
any of several grasses, asDistichlis spicata, that grow in salt marshes or in alkali soil.
[1695–1705]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
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FastGrass incorporates palm leaves woven into durable, natural-looking sheets that make boats and blinds all but disappear in everything fromsalt grass to tules and phragmites.
True, there may be other smells and sensations we might be glad she didn't evoke in a sentence like "I have never experienced the vibrant tang of a half-eaten kebab, last night's beer and the vestiges of a city's mingled aftershave quite so powerfully as when it met the Tyne's morning dampsalt grass smell", but I think she did the region proud.
So over the course of three days, a small group of us braved the 90-degree heat and 100-percent humidity and traipsed the dense mesquite thickets andsalt grass meadows that teemed with rattlesnakes and wild hogs and helped cull as many of the ranch's estimated 6,000 whitetails as we could.
Jacket is offered in Mossy Oak Break-Up Infinity, Realtree AP, Mossy Oak Duck Blind, Realtree Max-4 andSalt Grass solid color.
On West, they transplanted moresalt grass instead of seedlings and placed the transplants farther apart--saving money by using fewer plants.
Other organic materials like rice straw, wheat straw, rice husk and choppedsalt grass also improved these physical properties of a saline sodic soil.
Thesalt grass shorelines and scattered palms visually define this area, and the rich fishing draws anglers from all around.
Since then, no systematic estimate of damage has been conducted but at Bay Jimmy, which sits about 10 miles (16 km) inland from the Gulf's open water, oil has soaked deeper into the roots of thesalt grass and pushed about 1 mile (1.6 km) farther into the bayous, witnesses said.
Vegetation that consisted of inlandsalt grass (Disticulus stricta), sea purslane (Sesubium venucosum), saltmarsh bulrush (Scirpus paludosis), and exotic salt cedar (Tamarix) provided sparse cover (Koenen et al., 1996).
Flying over the bayou, I've seen shredded islands of brown spartina, orsalt grass, crosshatched with canals built by oil companies and flood control channels and levees built by the U.S.
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