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Eelgrass

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Noun

1. eelgrass, grass wrack, sea wrack, zostera marina

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

2. eelgrass, tape grass, vallisneria spiralis, wild celery

submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Eelgrass

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noun
1. 
any of several perennial submerged marine plants of the genus Zostera, esp Z. marina, having grasslike leaves: family Zosteraceae
2.  another name for tape grass

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Eelgrass

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noun
1. 
a flowering plant (Zostera marina) of the pondweed family, that grows underwater and has long, grasslike leaves
2. 
tape grass

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Eelgrass

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n.
1. Any of several submersed marine plants of the genus Zostera, having straplike leaves and found along northern and southern temperate coasts worldwide.
2. Any of several submersed freshwater plants of the genus Vallisneria, having long flat or twisted leaves and often grown as aquarium plants. Also called tape grass, wild celery.

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