Slough grass Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns
    freshwater cordgrass; Spartina pectinmata; prairie cordgrass.

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Definitions
  1. (Bot.), a name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; called also drop seed, and nimble Will.

Webster 1913