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Meanings of tape grass in English

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Submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia.

Synonyms
Examples for "eelgrass"
Examples for "eelgrass"
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And that's a fluke, over there by the eelgrass, the flatfish.'
Amagansett
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The eelgrass was still dying back and the scallops had been down that winter.
Amagansett
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Young lobsters have also been found in eelgrass and on sandy bottoms in shallow water.
The Lobster Fishery of Maine / Bulletin of the United States Fis...
4
Your mattress was made from the ocean's softest eelgrass.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
5
Sightings of the short-snouted seahorse are rare due to its slow movement and camouflage among eelgrass beds.
The Guardian
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Their horses stood each by his own chariot, champing lotus and wild celery.
The Iliad
2
The different vegetables met with were scurvy grass, wild celery, spinach, endive, and samphire.
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay / With an Account o...
3
The lagoon abounded with wild fowl, and we found wild celery, mussels, and limpets in plenty.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume...
4
The bushes acted as a sail, and I was soon drifted down among the plants of the wild celery.
The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire
5
A pretty stream, fed by a hot spring, struggles past through thick beds of wild celery and cow parsley.
Full Circle
Usage of tape grass in English
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Other good kinds are hornwort, water starwort, tape grass, water poppy, milfoil, willow moss, and floating plants like duckweed.
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