Meaning & use
cordgrass
A tough, salt-tolerant grass that grows in coastal marshes and wetlands.
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Cordgrass helps stabilize the muddy shoreline against erosion from tides and storms.
Migrating birds nest among the tall cordgrass along the estuary each spring.
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Cordgrass, genus Spartina, plays an important ecological role in salt marshes by trapping sediment and providing habitat.
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