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saw grass

American  
Also sawgrass

noun

  1. any of various sedges of the genus Cladium, of tropical and temperate regions, having spiny, serrated leaves.


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This popular paddling destination includes open ponds, mangrove tunnels and saw grass fields.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2022

Sea water, Nuttle says, was causing vast areas of once-healthy saw grass prairie “to unravel like a moth-eaten wool sweater.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2019

As dusk turns to darkness, we swing off the paved road on to a dirt levee surrounded by vast expanses of saw grass.

From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2019

It is part of the famed Everglades—a complex system of saw grass, mangroves and seagrass that is crucial to southern Florida’s water supplies, storm protection, fishing and tourism.

From Scientific American • Jun. 21, 2019

“You never saw grass in a concentration camp, because the prisoners ate it,” Jack said.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren