ZOSTERA MARINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Zostera marina mean? 

• ZOSTERA MARINA (noun)
  The noun ZOSTERA MARINA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ZOSTERA MARINA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZOSTERA MARINA (noun)

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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 ("Zostera marina" 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 ("Zostera marina" is a member of...):

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