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prairie cordgrass

DEFINITIONS OF: prairie cordgrass

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n North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns

Synonyms:
Spartina pectinmata, freshwater cordgrass, slough grass
Type of:
cord grass, cordgrass
any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders
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