1. Submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts
   "Eelgrass beds provide important habitat for young fish";
   - grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina
    
2. Submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia
   "The pond's surface rippled above the waving eelgrass";
   - tape grass, wild celery, Vallisneria spiralis

Derived forms: eelgrasses

Type of: aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant

Part of: genus Vallisneria, genus Zostera, Vallisneria, Zostera

Encyclopedia: Eelgrass