surfgrass

noun

: a grasslike aquatic plant of the genus Phyllospadix (family Potamogetonaceae) living on rocky ocean shores and having narrow linear basal leaves and small dioecious flowers borne on the side of a flattened spadix

Word History

Etymology

surf entry 1 + grass

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