EELGRASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eelgrass mean? 

• EELGRASS (noun)
  The noun EELGRASS has 2 senses:

1. submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts

2. submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia

  Familiarity information: EELGRASS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EELGRASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

eelgrass; grass wrack; sea wrack; Zostera marina

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

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

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

genus Zostera; Zostera ((or in some classifications family Zosteraceae) small genus of widely distributed marine plants)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

eelgrass; tape grass; Vallisneria spiralis; wild celery

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

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

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

genus Vallisneria; Vallisneria (eelgrass; eel grass)