Associations to the word «Spartina»

Wiktionary

SPARTINA, noun. Cordgrass (Spartina).
SPARTINA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Poaceae   — the cordgrasses, that grow in marshes, especially on seashores.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope