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TAPE GRASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tape grass mean?
• TAPE GRASS (noun)
The noun TAPE GRASS has 1 sense:
1. submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia
Familiarity information: TAPE GRASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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 ("tape grass" 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 ("tape grass" is a member of...):
genus Vallisneria; Vallisneria (eelgrass; eel grass)
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