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Zostera   Listen
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Zostera  n.  (Bot.) A genus of plants of the Naiadaceae, or Pondweed family. Zostera marina is commonly known as sea wrack, and eelgrass.






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"Zostera" Quotes from Famous Books



... green for miles, with long, ribbon-like plants covering its sandy bottom, sheltering, and perhaps helping to feed, the millions of crawling and running and swimming creatures, many of them so small as to be nearly invisible, which find their home there. This sea-grass, or Zostera, the only flowering plant to be found in the sea, is very useful to the poor people who live near the coast. They gather it when the tide is low, and dry it in the sun, and it serves them for nice soft beds; though I should think they must always keep ...
— Twilight And Dawn • Caroline Pridham



Words linked to "Zostera" :   liliopsid genus, Potamogetonaceae, eelgrass, genus Zostera, grass wrack, monocot genus



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