sawgrass
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈsɔːˌɡræs/
- US
:
hierba de sierra
- Bulrushes, maidencane, sawgrass, and spikerushes are common.
- sawgrass prairie
- expanse of sawgrass
- sawgrass marshes
Examples
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The Everglades are part of a larger watershed of wet prairies, sawgrass marshes, forest swamps, riverine wetlands, and lakes dominating southern Florida.
Academic text (1994) -
Just up from the stony beach, the sawgrass and chokecherry bushes began.
Fiction book (1999) -
This river, 100 miles long and 60 miles wide, moved slowly through the sawgrass.
Academic text (2006) -
We turned to the right and saw only more cypress, palm, and sawgrass.
Fiction book (2002) -
This time, I poked around through the underbrush and the sawgrass.
Fiction book (1997) -
While cattails appear natural and certainly have a beauty of their own, they have replaced the sawgrass marshes for which the Everglades are famous.
Academic text (1994) -
Last week, Davenport's class met in sawgrass-covered sand dunes with the ocean pounding away in the background.
Fiction book (2000) -
That applies to any part of this grass right here, and it's applies to things like Bermuda grass, sawgrass, tiger grass, a lot of your grasses.
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The large expanse of waving sawgrass grows in a shallow layer of water that moves slowly toward the sea.
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As the water receded during the dry winter months, pools formed in the sawgrass prairie, concentrating fish in abundant quantities.
Compounds
1
6.0
A group of places in Florida, especially a famous golf course and a large shopping center
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sawgrass is simply made from saw 'a tool that cuts' and grass, so the name gives a clear picture: a grass with long, sharp leaves like a saw blade. That's why sawgrass refers to the tall wetland grass, especially in the Everglades, whose edges can cut your skin.