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单词 marram grass
释义

marram grass

/ˈmarəm /
(also marram)
noun
A coarse European grass of coastal sand dunes, binding the loose sand with its tough rhizomes.
  • Ammophila arenaria, family Gramineae.
I followed Sean away from the beach, down the sandy paths where the marram grass gave way to bracken and scrubby trees, deeper and deeper into the dunes....
  • A steep sand cliff rose 50m from the coast to form a complex system of dunes fixed by marram grass with areas where competitors faced soft energy-sapping sand.
  • These are not straggly, marram grass-threaded dunes as we know them.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Old Norse marálmr, from marr 'sea' + hálmr 'haulm'.

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