SPARTINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spartina mean? 

• SPARTINA (noun)
  The noun SPARTINA has 1 sense:

1. grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands

  Familiarity information: SPARTINA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPARTINA (noun)

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Meaning:

Grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Spartina; Spartina

Hypernyms ("Spartina" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Spartina"):

cord grass; cordgrass (any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders)

Holonyms ("Spartina" is a member of...):

family Graminaceae; family Gramineae; family Poaceae; Graminaceae; Gramineae; grass family; Poaceae (the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane)