saw grass
noun
: any of various sedges (as of the genus Cladium) having the edges of the leaves set with minute sharp teeth
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There are thousands of these family lands floating among the veins of sweet water and saw grass.
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Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
The vessel roared into being, moving swiftly across immense stretches of saw grass slough—a sensation more akin to flying than floating—as the sticky South Florida air propelled us deep into the park’s wilderness.
—Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 16 Aug. 2022
On the other side of the path were fields of swaying saw grass and hardwood hammocks — dense stands of broad-leafed trees that grow on a slight rise of only a few inches.
—Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022
This popular paddling destination includes open ponds, mangrove tunnels and saw grass fields.
—Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022
In the thick of the Everglades near the southern shore of Lake Okeechobee, Belle Glade once had a frontier character formed by a handful of people who contended with the saw grass and mosquitoes and caught catfish and spoke their own patois.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2021
But this multifaceted ecosystem—fresh marsh and salt, brackish estuary, mangroves, saw grass, beds of sea grass, ribbons of reef—no longer functions naturally.
—T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2019
To a layman, this patch of brown-green saw grass and button mangrove deep inside Everglades National Park looks healthy enough, but Troxler knows trouble lurks just beneath the murky surface.
—Allen G. Breed, The Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2019
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Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2024
The vessel roared into being, moving swiftly across immense stretches of saw grass slough—a sensation more akin to flying than floating—as the sticky South Florida air propelled us deep into the park’s wilderness.
—Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 16 Aug. 2022
On the other side of the path were fields of swaying saw grass and hardwood hammocks — dense stands of broad-leafed trees that grow on a slight rise of only a few inches.
—Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022
This popular paddling destination includes open ponds, mangrove tunnels and saw grass fields.
—Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2022
In the thick of the Everglades near the southern shore of Lake Okeechobee, Belle Glade once had a frontier character formed by a handful of people who contended with the saw grass and mosquitoes and caught catfish and spoke their own patois.
—Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2021
But this multifaceted ecosystem—fresh marsh and salt, brackish estuary, mangroves, saw grass, beds of sea grass, ribbons of reef—no longer functions naturally.
—T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2019
To a layman, this patch of brown-green saw grass and button mangrove deep inside Everglades National Park looks healthy enough, but Troxler knows trouble lurks just beneath the murky surface.
—Allen G. Breed, The Denver Post, 3 Dec. 2019
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“Saw grass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saw%20grass. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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