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WHAT DOES CORD GRASS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Spartina

Spartina, commonly known as cordgrass or cord-grass, is a genus of 14 species of grasses in the family Poaceae. The genus name is derived from σπαρτίνη, the Greek word for a cord made from Spanish broom. They are native to the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean in western and southern Europe, northwest and southern Africa, the Americas and the southern Atlantic Ocean islands; one or two species also occur on the North American Pacific Ocean coast and in freshwater habitats inland in the Americas. The highest species diversity is on the east coasts of North America and South America, particularly Florida. They form large, often dense colonies, particularly on coastal salt marshes, and grow quickly. The species vary in size from 0.3–2 m tall. Many of the species will produce hybrids if they come into contact.

Definition of cord grass in the English dictionary

The definition of cord grass in the dictionary is a coarse perennial grass of the genus Spartina, characteristically growing in mud or marsh Also called: rice grass.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CORD GRASS

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WORDS THAT END LIKE CORD GRASS

beargrass
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bluegrass
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Greengrass
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supergrass
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tallgrass
turfgrass
wheatgrass

Synonyms and antonyms of cord grass in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «cord grass» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CORD GRASS

Find out the translation of cord grass to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cord grass from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cord grass» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

线草
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cable de hierba
570 millions of speakers

English

cord grass
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कॉर्ड घास
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

العشب الحبل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

шнур трава
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cabo de grama
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কর্ড ঘাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

spartine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rumput tali
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gras
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

脊髄草
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

코드 잔디
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Suket tali
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cỏ dây
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தண்டு புல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॉर्ड गवत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kordon çimi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

erba cavo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przewód trawy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

шнур трава
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

iarbă cordon
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χλοοτάπητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

koord gras
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

sladd gräs
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ledningen gress
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CORD GRASS»

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Wildflowers and Other Plants of Iowa Wetlands
187 Other common names: Cord grass, freshwater cord grass, marsh grass, slough grass, tall marsh grass, rip gut. Spartina: From Greek spartine, "a cord", probably referring to the strong, tough leaves. Pectinata: From Latin, meaning ...
Sylvan T. Runkel, Dean M. Roosa, 2010
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USGA Restoration Handbook on CD-ROM
They planted saltwater cord grass with thirty gram doses (one film-canister-full) of time-release fertilizer with iron under each plant (Bergen and Levandowski 1994) . The purpose of the fertilizer was to promote growth of both the cord grass and ...
Donald Harker, Kay Harker, Gary Libby, 1999
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Landscape Restoration Handbook, Second Edition
Brackish marsh along the Gulf Coast that remains undisturbed for a decade will contain ecological communities dominated by salt-meadow cord grass ( Chabreck 1988). A major disturbance such as fire often hinders succession and permits a ...
Donald Harker, 1999
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Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis: Or, An Account of the Results ...
Cord-grass. Generic character: calyx two- valved (three-valved R. S. L. Sys.), one -flowered, unequal, keeled, very acute ; corolla two-valved, husks awnless ; bifid emarginate, and toothed shorter than the calyx ; nectary rather truncated, fringed  ...
George Sinclair, 1869
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The National Wetland Plant List
FACW Bunch Cord Grass Spartina cynosuroides (L.) Roth OBL OBL OBL OBL OBL Big Cord Grass Spartina densiflora ... FACW OBL FACU FACW FACW FACW FACW OBL Salt-Meadow Cord Grass Spartina pectinata Bosc ex Link OBL OBL ...
Robert Lichvar, 2012
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Rare Vascular Plants of Alberta
Notes: Prairie cord grass is similar to the more common alkali cord grass ( Spartina gracilisTrin.). The glumes of alkali cord grass are relatively smooth to the touch and the upper glume does not have a bristle. Alkali cord grass has shorter, less ...
Linda Kershaw, 2001
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Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis, Or, An Account of the Results ...
10. SPARTINA cynosuroides, per. dog's-tail-like cord-grass, nat. North Amer. Dactylis cynosuroides, Hort. Kew. i. 160. Hort. Gram. Wob. Flo. Bor. Amer. i. 64. Limnetis cynosuroides, Pers. Sprengel. stricta, per. upright cord-grass, nat. of England ...
George Sinclair, 1825
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Tallgrass Prairie Restoration in the Midwestern and Eastern ...
4.22 Spartina pectinata (Poaceae Family), Freshwater Cord Grass 155 and height give the plant an attractive aspect. Although it has been assigned a fairly low Coefficient of Conservation of 4, glade mallow is rarely seen. In the wild I have ...
Harold Gardner, 2010
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Native & Naturalized Plants of Nantucket
Salt-marsh grass, Salt-water Cord-grass, Smooth Cord-grass S. glabra alterniflora (Lois.) Merrill. S. stricta Roth. var. alterniflora Gray. (Native) (July-Sep) (C) S. patens (Ait.) Muhl. High-water Grass, Salt-meadow Cord-grass, Salt-water Grass S.
Frank C. MacKeever, 1968
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Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Northeastern North America, ...
Spartina (Cord Grass) Perennial herbs; stems thick and erect, or weak, slender, and usually matted; spikelets 1-flowered, in 2 rows on one side of rachis, forming 1 -sided spikes. References: McDonnell and Crow, 1979: Mobberly, 1956. 1.
Garrett E. Crow, C. Barre Hellquist, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CORD GRASS»

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Volunteers count plants at Port Susan reserve
The scourge of East Coast saltmarshes, common reed and common cord grass, were at the top of the list of plants that were identified in the ... «Stanwood Camano News, Jun 15»
2
Pasco County real estate transactions for June 26
1208 Cord Grass Ct., to Rafal Jackowski & Danuta Radzik by Megan Petermann & Travis Petermann, $192,000, 5/29/2015. 31438 Loch Aline ... «Tampabay.com, Jun 15»
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An Hour North Of Miami, You Can See Some Of Florida's Most …
It also has Tidal flats, sea grass, oyster reefs, cord grass, and mangroves as habitats for fish, shellfish species, and provides nesting grounds for ... «Rise Miami News, Jun 15»
4
Dunleavy earns Eagle Scout badge
Spartina is a cord grass that is indigenous to Florida and is used to assist with land reclamation along the beaches and in marshes. Dunleavy ... «Tampa Bay Newspapers, Jun 15»
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Students Embrace The Benefits Of Spartina, Pluff Mud
All year the students had been nurturing this smooth cord grass from seed in order to restore a mud-flat area of salt marsh. The seeds were ... «Island Eye News, Jun 15»
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NASA scientist touts renewable energy, saltwater farming during …
Start with Spartina alterniflora, the cord grass that lines marshes along the Intracoastal Waterway and parts of the St. Johns River near the ... «Florida Times-Union, May 15»
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ELLIOTT COLUMN: Eaves well worth commemorating with Kentville …
... for powwows, only the wide silence broken by the gurgling water of the swift incoming tide and the wind whispering through the cord grass.”. «Kings County Register/Advertiser, May 15»
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Native plants make gardens naturally beautiful
... paths to protect their cattle from the sharp edges of prairie cord grass, and you'll immediately want to grow these plants in your own garden. «Suburban Life Publications, May 15»
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How Wetland Microbes Impact Global Climate
Stilt-legged birds skitter along the banks of the pond; cord grass and still water stretch to the horizon. susannah-tringe. Susannah Tringe uses a ... «Discover Magazine, Apr 15»
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UC Marin Master Gardeners: Wildflowers abloom all over Marin's …
China Camp State Park: The park is a coastal salt marsh and part of a mixed evergreen forest— a good spot to see gum plant and cord grass. «Marin Independent Journal, Apr 15»

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