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Definition of Slough grass
1. Noun. North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns.
Generic synonyms: Cord Grass, Cordgrass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slough Grass
Literary usage of Slough grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1907)
"On June 8, 1900, there were six nests; five in slough grass, which was here
preferred to bulrushes, and one in a wild rose bush. ..."
2. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1891)
"It has been found to occur only in sloughs or in heavy grass adjacent to them,
especially slough grass (Spartina cynosuroides). ..."
3. The Grasses of Iowa by Louis Hermann Pammel, Julius Buel Weems, Carleton Roy Ball, F. Lamson-Scribner, Harry Foster Bain (1904)
"FRESH WATER CORD GRASS OR slough grass. A stout, erect grass, 2 to 6 feet (5-8 dm.
... slough grass is widely distributed in the state. ..."
4. Clover Culture by Henry Wallace (1892)
"... plot until a year later, when, driving near it, our attention was called to
the hum of the bees apparently among the slough grass surrounding the patch. ..."
5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"The defendant cannot use his swale, keeping it in a state of nature, to produce
slough-grass, and thereby injure plaintiff's land by rendering it less ..."
6. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1894)
"Why should he be permitted, in order to protect hia swale where slough grass
grows, to compel the plaintiff to lose the benefits of the tile drains? ..."
7. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1917)
"Certain areas bordering on Moose lake 'however would be suitable for stock raising
as the growth of slough grass over these sections in 1915 was quite ..."
8. History of Hall County, Nebraska: A Narrative of the Past with Special by August F. Buechler, Robert J. Barr, Dale P. Stough (1920)
"... and right behind our wagon in the lower part of the ravine and stretching
toward the Loup River was slough grass almost as long as a short grown person. ..."
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