Word Study
sparta |
spartan |
sparteine |
sparterie |
sparth |
spartina
| spartina cynosuroides
| spartina pectinmata
| spartium
| spartium junceum
| sparve
spartina
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun spartina has 1 sense
- spartina(n = noun.plant) genus spartina - grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands; Array is a kind of liliopsid genus, monocot genus
is a member of family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae
OXFORD DICTIONARY
spartina, n. any grass of the genus Spartina, with rhizomatous roots and growing in wet or marshy ground.
Etymology
Gk spartine rope
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