spartina
See also: Spartina
English
editEtymology
editFrom the genus name.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -aɪnə
Noun
editspartina (usually uncountable, plural spartinas)
- cordgrass (Spartina).
- 2007 November 7, Andy Newman, “Protecting a Wild Patch of City Marshland”, in New York Times[1]:
- The spartina, which grows along a sheltered cove and makes up about 15 acres of the whole parcel, is what makes Arlington Marsh so dear, said William K. Tai, director of the park's departments natural resources group.