Grass-wrack; zostera marina.
1806. A young man at Sullivan (Maine) saw a Fox go down to some eel-grass, and roll himself up in it.—Balt. Ev. Post, Feb. 19, p. 3/3: from a Buckstown paper.
1824.
| A beard thick as eel-grass is hanging beneath, | |
| While two rows of huge barnacles serve him for teeth. | |
The Microscope, Albany, Feb. 21: from the Providence Journal. |
1860. Or as the Captain less poetically suggests, “we see sharks in the eel-grass.”—Yale Lit. Mag., xxv. 220 (March).
1864. The kelp and eel-grass left by higher floods.—Lowell, ‘Fireside Travels,’ p. 45. (N.E.D.)
