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词汇 sawgrass
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Definition of sawgrass in English:

sawgrass

nounˈsɔːɡrɑːsˈsôɡras
North American
  • A sedge with spiny-edged leaves.

    〈主美〉克拉莎草,砖子苗

    Cladium, family Cyperaceae: two species, in particular the North American C. jamaicensis, which is a dominant plant in the Florida Everglades

    Example sentencesExamples
    • How many times have you missed a duck because you were wondering whether you were standing in crabgrass or sawgrass?
    • Sugar growers use huge amounts of phosphorus-based fertilizer, most of which runs off into the Everglades and promotes the growth of exotic cattails in place of the native sawgrass.
    • From its subterranean source, the Wekiva meanders slow and clear past waving sawgrasses and under a moss-draped canopy of oak and laurel and longleaf pine.
    • The phosphorous infusion at first caused sawgrass to grow rapidly and abnormally large; then it died and gave way to cattails, which usurp 50 acres of sawgrass a day.
    • When canals dropped the water table below the surface, and the sawgrass was cleared, the peat dried, shrank and blew away, or burnt like a cigar, smoldering for months and years, filling the sky with smoke.

Definition of sawgrass in US English:

sawgrass

(also saw grass)
nounˈsôɡras
North American
  • A sedge with spiny-edged leaves.

    〈主美〉克拉莎草,砖子苗

    Cladium, family Cyperaceae: two species, in particular the North American C. jamaicensis, which is a dominant plant in the Florida Everglades

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Sugar growers use huge amounts of phosphorus-based fertilizer, most of which runs off into the Everglades and promotes the growth of exotic cattails in place of the native sawgrass.
    • From its subterranean source, the Wekiva meanders slow and clear past waving sawgrasses and under a moss-draped canopy of oak and laurel and longleaf pine.
    • When canals dropped the water table below the surface, and the sawgrass was cleared, the peat dried, shrank and blew away, or burnt like a cigar, smoldering for months and years, filling the sky with smoke.
    • The phosphorous infusion at first caused sawgrass to grow rapidly and abnormally large; then it died and gave way to cattails, which usurp 50 acres of sawgrass a day.
    • How many times have you missed a duck because you were wondering whether you were standing in crabgrass or sawgrass?
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