cord grass

/kɔərd græs/

Other forms: cord grasses

Definitions of cord grass

1. noun

   any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders
   synonyms: cordgrass

   types:

   Spartina cynosuroides, salt reed grass

   tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows

   Spartina pectinmata, freshwater cordgrass, prairie cordgrass, slough grass

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

   type of:

   grass

   narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay