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slough grass
(encz) | slough grass, n: |
Slough grass
(gcide) | Slough \Slough\, n. [OE. slogh, slough, AS. sl[=o]h a hollow
place; cf. MHG. sl[=u]ch an abyss, gullet, G. schlucken to
swallow; also Gael. & Ir. sloc a pit, pool. ditch, Ir. slug
to swallow. Gr. ????? to hiccough, to sob.]
1. A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
--Chaucer.
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He's here stuck in a slough. --Milton.
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2. [Pronounced sl[=oo].] A wet place; a swale; a side channel
or inlet from a river.
Note: [In this sense local or provincial; also spelt sloo,
and slue.]
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Slough grass (Bot.), a name in the Mississippi valley for
grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; -- called also {drop
seed}, and nimble Will.
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slough grass
(wn) | slough grass
n 1: North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous
margins and glumes with long awns [syn: {prairie
cordgrass}, freshwater cordgrass, slough grass,
Spartina pectinmata] |
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