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lyme grass
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noun
a N temperate perennial dune grass, Elymus arenarius, with a creeping stem and rough bluish leaves
Word History and Origins
Origin of lyme grass1
Example Sentences
The process usually begins with lyme grass, which grows quickly and can stabilize the soil.
One of the lyme grasses, Elymus Virqinicus, is a stiff, short grass, growing along streams.
It is situated among the dunes, with nothing but lyme grass around it, and here and there a few immortelles, and one always hears the sea.
There was lyme grass all around, and the bright yellow of the immortelles stood out sharply against the yellow sand they were growing in, despite the kinship of colors.
All along the sides of the road stood thick clumps of lyme grass, and around them immortelles and a few blood-red pinks.
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