Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several grasses of the genus Leersia, found mostly along marshes, ponds, and streams and having leaves with very rough, serrated margins.
- noun Any of several other grasses with rough margins.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of grass having very rough blades, which when drawn quickly through the hand inflict a cut.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
grass withleaves havingedges furnished with very minute hookedprickles , which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Vegetation in the creekbank zone of Sweet Hall Marsh includes arrow arum, smooth cordgrass, big cordgrass, smartweeds, rice cutgrass, wild rice, water hemp, water dock, Walter's millet and marsh milkweed.
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Virginia 2007
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Giant cutgrass is a common plant in freshwater marshes, along with pickerel weed, sawgrass, jewelweed, water parsnip and smartweeds.
North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina 2007
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The three dominant plant types in the natural wetland at year 15 were the rice cutgrass, softstem bulrush and cattails.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2010
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The three dominant plant types in the natural wetland at year 15 were the rice cutgrass, softstem bulrush and cattails.
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Seven dominant plant types were growing in year 15 in the created wetland: bur-reed, a variety of cattails, river bulrush and softstem bulrush, American lotus, sago pondweed and rice cutgrass.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2010
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The three dominant plant types in the natural wetland at year 15 were the rice cutgrass, softstem bulrush and cattails.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Seven dominant plant types were growing in year 15 in the created wetland: bur-reed, a variety of cattails, river bulrush and softstem bulrush, American lotus, sago pondweed and rice cutgrass.
innovations-report 2010
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The three dominant plant types in the natural wetland at year 15 were the rice cutgrass, softstem bulrush and cattails.
innovations-report 2010
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Seven dominant plant types were growing in year 15 in the created wetland: bur-reed, a variety of cattails, river bulrush and softstem bulrush, American lotus, sago pondweed and rice cutgrass.
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Seven dominant plant types were growing in year 15 in the created wetland: bur-reed, a variety of cattails, river bulrush and softstem bulrush, American lotus, sago pondweed and rice cutgrass.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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