CORDGRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cordgrass mean? 

• CORDGRASS (noun)
  The noun CORDGRASS has 1 sense:

1. any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders

  Familiarity information: CORDGRASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORDGRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cord grass; cordgrass

Hypernyms ("cordgrass" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cordgrass"):

salt reed grass; Spartina cynosuroides (tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows)

freshwater cordgrass; prairie cordgrass; slough grass; Spartina pectinmata (North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns)

Holonyms ("cordgrass" is a member of...):

genus Spartina; Spartina (grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands)