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eel grass

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eel grass [ēl ‚gras]
(botany)


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Here, meadows of eel grass (Zostera marina) have served as important nurseries for young fish.
It prefers the warmer waters of back bays, lagoons and other inshore shallows or, with less frequency, quiet sections of open coast that are anchored by rocks and eel grass.
Two of the fish he caught out of the eel grass on the north end of Lake Okeechobee tipped the scales at over 5 pounds.
 
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