'Slough grass' definitions:
Definition of 'slough grass'
From: WordNet
noun
North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns [syn: prairie cordgrass, freshwater cordgrass, slough grass, Spartina pectinmata]
Definition of 'Slough grass'
From: GCIDE
- 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]