| 单词 | manatee grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmanatee grass manatee grass n. either of two grasslike marine aquatic plants (flowering underwater) occurring in shallow coastal waters of the Caribbean and south-eastern United States: (a) Thalassia testudinum (family Hydrocharitaceae), also called turtle-grass (rare); (b) Syringodium filiforme ( Cymodocea manatorum) (family Cymodoceaceae). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > others manatee grass1696 pepper dulse1724 pipeweed1755 sea-beard1777 Iceland sea grass1809 Porphyra1836 nullipore1840 sea-thread1843 niggerhair1852 lucky minnie's lines1853 marine sauce1866 hijiki1951 1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 5 Alga Juncea,..Manati Grasse. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. i. 36 A bottom of white sand, bedded here and there with the short manati-grass. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 255/2 Thalassia testudinum, Manatu-grass [sic], Turtle-grass. 1924 Sci. Survey Porto Rico & Virgin Is. (N.Y. Acad. of Sciences) V. 12 Cymodocea manatorum... Shallow salt water, Porto Rico; Culebra; St. Thomas; St. Croix; St. Jan:—Florida; Mississippi; Louisiana; Jamaica; Bermuda to Cuba, Martinique and Curaçao. Manatee-grass. 1933 J. K. Small Man. Southeastern Flora 18 Manatee-grass... Coastal creeks and bays, Fla. to La. 1987 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 100 1023 Two known species of free-living marine nematodes..are described from sediments vegetated with manatee grass (Syringodium filiformis [sic]) and shoal grass (Halodule wrightii)..from St. Andrew Bay, Bay County, Florida. < as lemmas |
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