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marram|ˈmærəm|
Also 8 marem, marran, morrane, 9 maram, mar(r)um, murram.
[a. ON. maralm-r, f. mar-r sea + halm-r haulm.]
1. A local name (chiefly E. Angl.) for the Sea Reed or Bent Grass, Psamma arenaria, the roots of which bind together and keep stable the sands of the sea-shore in Northern Europe. Also marram-grass, sea-marram.
1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 1200 We in English [call Spartum] Helme and Matweede, but the people all along the Coasts of Norfolke and Suffolke call it Marram. 1726C. Threlkeld Syn. Stirp. Hibern. K 5, Our Country Women in Fingall call these Morranes. 1787W. Marshall Norfolk (1795) II. 383 Gloss., Marram or Marem, Arundo arenaria, sea-reed-grass. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 268 Dry sand, bound in a compact mass by the long creeping roots of the plant called Marram. 1834Penny Cycl. II. 427/2 Arundo arenaria, the sea-reed or marrum-grass. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 274 The Sea Maram.
2. A sand-hill grown over with this grass.
1834Paget Nat. Hist. Yarmouth Introd. 22 The hills of drifted sand which form the marrams. 1867Lyell Princ. Geol. ii. xx. (ed. 10) I. 513 Hills of blown sand, called ‘Marrams’,..now occupy the site.
attrib.1879R. Lubbock Fauna of Norfolk 112 The marum banks on the coast. |