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• n  submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts
• n  submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia

• The disappearance of the eelgrass upset the entire balance of eastern shoreline life.
• At week's end, she was chewing contentedly on eelgrass and seaweed, rising to the surface every three to five minutes to gulp fresh air and peer shortsightedly at the tourists and .
• Beds of luminous eelgrass blow in the liquid winds like mermaids' hair.

• grass wrack
• sea wrack
• Zostera marina
• tape grass
• wild celery
• Vallisneria spiralis

News & Articles

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• Low-key getaway: cabins at Bay View State Park
  BAY VIEW, Wash. (AP) — The sun was setting over Padilla Bay. Soon thereafter, the mud flats and eelgrass meadows faded into the night.
  July 13, 2013 - Idaho Press-Tribune
• Compromise reached on stalled Bainbridge Island road project
  The agreement will require the city to add sediment to the beach below the proposed stabilization wall to maintain spawning grounds for forage fish and to nourish eelgrass beds.
  July 12, 2013 - Bainbridge Islander