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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns;
[syn: prairie cordgrass, freshwater cordgrass, slough grass, Spartina pectinmata]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Slough \Slough\, n. [OE. slogh, slough, AS. sl[=o]h a hollow place; cf. MHG. sl[=u]ch an abyss, gullet, G. schlucken to swallow; also Gael. & Ir. sloc a pit, pool. ditch, Ir. slug to swallow. Gr. ????? to hiccough, to sob.] 1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] He's here stuck in a slough. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. [Pronounced sl[=oo].] A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river. Note: [In this sense local or provincial; also spelt sloo, and slue.] [1913 Webster] Slough grass (Bot.), a name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; -- called also drop seed, and nimble Will. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

slough grass n 1: North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns [syn: prairie cordgrass, freshwater cordgrass, slough grass, Spartina pectinmata]