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ˈsea-grass
[Cf. G. seegras, meergras.]
1. A grass which grows by the sea. Also one of various grass-like plants: (a) = sea-pink a; (b) one of the glassworts, Salicornia herbacea; (c) the grass Spartina stricta.
1578Lyte Dodoens iv. l. 509 Sea grasse... Some call it in Englishe our Ladies quishion. 1629Parkinson Parad. 318 In English, Thrift, Sea grasse, and our Ladies Cushion. 1791W. Gilpin Forest Scenery II. 158 Its banks..are covered, like the other mud-lands of this country, with sea⁓grass, which gives them the air of meadows when the tide retires. 1837Baxter Brit. Phænog. Bot. III. 203 Spartina stricta. Twin-spiked Cord-grass. Smooth Sea-grass. Sea Cock's-foot-grass. 1839[see sea-grape 1].
2. One of various plants and seaweeds growing in the sea: (a) a pondweed, Ruppia maritima; (b) the eel-grass or grass-wrack, Zostera marina; also, the dried stems of this plant, used in ropes, chair-seats, etc.; (c) the gulf-weed; (d) the Enteromorpha compressa.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Ova, reeke, sea grasse, ducke weede, Vlua, alga, lens palustris. 1605B. Jonson Masque of Blackness, Oceanus..was gyrlonded with Alga, or sea⁓grasse. 1762W. Hudson Flora Anglica 63 Ruppia maritima... Sea-grass. 1857–8Longfellow M. Standish iv. 12 Welcome, O wind of the East..Blowing o'er fields of dulse, and measureless meadows of sea-grass. 1883E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes N.S. Wales (Fish. Exhib. Catal.) 48 The food of the Dugong consists of sea-grasses, chiefly a species of Zostera. 1900Jrnl. Soc. Arts 12 Jan. 170/1 Sea grass is a long thin grass that grows on the protected flats of the Lower St. Lawrence River. Ibid. (heading) Canadian sea grass for upholstering. 1911[see porch chair s.v. porch 8]. 1933P. T. Tucker Riding High Country ii. 31 His las' rope was sea grass. 1979Dictionaries I. 64 Sea grass is..a derived product with a local name.
3. A variety of cirrus cloud.
1887Abercromby Weather 98.
4. attrib.
1864Sala in Daily Tel. 2 Aug., Ligatures of seagrass twine—which cut like razors. 1895Outing (U.S.) XXVI. 356/1 Off speeds the bass with an hundred foot pennon of sea-grass line trailing from his bloody jaws. 1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 11 Apr. 7/1 (Advt.), Special sale of sea grass chairs. 1967Southerly XXVII. 152 Immemorial deck-chairs and seagrass tables. |