genus spartina

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	liliopsid genus, monocot genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	cord grass, cordgrass,
definition	:	any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae,
definition	:	the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane (noun.plant)