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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: slough grass
slough grass
n : North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous
margins and glumes with long awns [syn:
prairie cordgrass
,
freshwater cordgrass,
Spartina pectinmata]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Slough grass
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.
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He's here stuck in a slough. --Milton.
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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.]
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Slough grass (Bot.), a name in the Mississippi valley for
grasses of the genus
Muhlenbergia; -- called also
drop seed
, and
nimble Will.
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