Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Matweed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Matweed \Mat"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed
({Ammophila arundinacea}) which is used in Holland to bind
the sand of the seacoast dikes (see {Beach grass}, under
{Beach}); also, the {Lygeum Spartum}, a Mediterranean grass
of similar habit.
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