seagrass

English

Etymology

sea +‎ grass

Pronunciation

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Noun

seagrass (plural seagrasses)

1. Any of various grass-like marine plants that grow underwater in salt water.
   • 2007 October 2, Henry Fountain, “Wayward Youths (or Green Turtles) and Their Drifting Ways”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     They are not seen again until they arrive as larger juveniles in shallow coastal waters, where they dine on seagrass and algae.

Translations

grasslike marine plants

• Arabic: نجيل بحري
• Belarusian: марскія травы (marskija travy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海草 (zh) (hǎicǎo)

• Finnish: meriheinä, meriruoho
• French: herbier marin (fr) m, posidonie (fr) f
• Galician: ceba f, xebra f
• Georgian: ზღვის მცენარეულობა (zɣvis mcenareuloba)
• German: Seegras (de) n
• Greek: θαλάσσια φανερόγαμα (thalássia fanerógama)
• Hindi: सागरघास (sāgarghās)
• Indonesian: lamun (id)
• Ingrian: meriheinä
• Japanese: 海草 (ja) (かいそう, kaisō)
• Korean: 해초 (ko) (haecho)
• Latin: gramen maritimum
• Malayalam: കടൽപ്പുല്ല് (kaṭalppullŭ)
• Maori: rimurehia, karepō, nana
• Mokilese: lahd, walahd
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjøgress n

• Persian: علف دریایی
• Polish: trawa morska f
• Portuguese: erva marinha f
• Russian: морские травы (morskije travy)
• Sikaiana: limu
• Slovene: morska trava f
• Spanish: pradera marina f
• Swedish: sjögräs (sv)
• Thai: หญ้าทะเล (yâa-tá-lee)
• Turkish: deniz çayırı
• Vietnamese: cỏ biển

See also

• seagrass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia