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121salt reed grass — noun tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows • Syn: ↑Spartina cynosuroides • Hypernyms: ↑cordgrass, ↑cord grass * * * noun : a tall reedlike grass (Spartina cynosuroides) common in salt meadows …
122Common periwinkle — Winkle redirects here. For the contract bridge play, see Winkle squeeze. Common periwinkle Periwinkle emerging from its shell, Sweden Scientific classificatio …
123common — adj. 1 happening/found often VERBS ▪ be, seem ▪ become ▪ remain ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly …
124salt marsh — a marshy tract that is wet with salt water or flooded by the sea. [bef. 1000; ME saltmerche, OE sealtne mersc] * * * ▪ geology area of low, flat, poorly drained ground that is subject to daily or occasional flooding by salt water or… …
125SALT — In common with other developed agricultural communities, salt was an essential commodity for the Etruscans, particularly for storage. Salt was probably procured from coastal salt pans, especially concentrated around the Tiber estuary, but the… …
126Salt-pan — Particularly common in eastern England, around the Wash; there are still remains of such pans. They collected salt water; being heated from below, salt remained as water evaporated. The render or payment to a lord was often made up of… …
127salt-water bream — Sailor Sail or, n. One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman. [1913 Webster] Syn: Mariner; seaman; seafarer.… …
128salt — 1. noun /sɒlt,sɔlt,sɑlt/ a) A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative. I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a… …
