Found 2 items, similar to slough grass.
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. [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]