spartina

WORDNET DICTIONARY

spartina(n = noun.plant) genus spartina - grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands;

is a kind of liliopsid genus, monocot genus

is a member of family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae

spartina, n. any grass of the genus Spartina, with rhizomatous roots and growing in wet or marshy ground.

Etymology

Gk spartine rope