: any of various submerged monocotyledonous plants (such as eelgrass, tape grass, and turtle grass) of tropical to temperate usually shallow coastal waters that have narrow grasslike leaves and often form dense underwater meadows
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Recent Examples on the WebThe three recent dugong sightings collected during the study were from Shantou, China, but the area lacks the seagrass beds dugongs feed off of. Caitlin O'kane, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2022 Pando, Humongous Fungus, and the seagrass all thrived unencumbered for millennia. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2022 In the clear water, upside-down jellyfish can be seen drifting over the swaying seagrass. Barry Neild, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022 Their primary food source along the Atlantic coast, seagrass, has been decimated by water pollution. Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2022 The seagrass is about 4,500 years old, and covers an area larger than Brooklyn, Sinclair said. Catherine Garcia, The Week, 2 June 2022 Scientists believe the seagrass is roughly 4,500 years old. Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 June 2022 But as the sea otter population rebounded there in the early 2000s, so did the seagrass. Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2022 But for about a decade now, the seagrass has been disappearing.CBS News, 7 Dec. 2021 See More