The minute fragments broken off from seaweeds and from the sea-grass (a flowering plant called Zostera) form a sort of nutritive sea-dust which is swept slowly down the slope from the shore, to form a very useful deposit in the quietness of deepish water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference

Flowering, pollination and fruiting in Zostera marina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Several extensive Zostera beds occur within Great Bay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire] Reference

One of these, Zostera marina, grows fully submerged in seawater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Eelgrass (Zostera marina) grows well in the Gulf of California in North America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Eelgrass (Zostera marinarus) is found between Patience and Prudence islands and along the east shore of South Prudence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island] Reference

Flowering plants evolved on land; a few genera, like Zostera and Phyllospadix in the temperate zone, returned to the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary] Reference

This sea-grass, or Zostera, the only flowering plant to be found in the sea, is very useful to the poor people who live near the coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation] Reference

Beds of eelgrass (both native Zostera marina, and the introduced Zostera japonica) cover an estimated 100 acres of the Coos estuary bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Oregon] Reference

There are two species of seagrass in Padilla Bay: Zostera marina or eelgrass (native to Padilla Bay) and Zostera japonica (a nonnative species).    From Wordnik.com.  [Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington] Reference

Mangrove forest, which is at its northern limit in the North Pacific, comprises Rhizophora mangle, Zostera marina and Salicornia bigelowii (IK).    From Wordnik.com.  [Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaíno, Mexico] Reference

The Japanese eelgrass (Zostera japonica) for example, converts tidal flats, important foraging grounds for shorebirds, to eelgrass beds and alters nutrient fluxes in its invasive range in the Pacific Northwest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aquatic invasive species] Reference

The vegetation of 600-800 square kilometers (km2) of shallow water is vast expanses of seagrass, especially the eelgrass Zostera noltii in the intertidal zone and Cymodocea nodosa with Halodule wrightii in the subtidal zone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania] Reference

Eel-grass (Zostera marina) washed up at Goose Spit.    From Wordnik.com.  [BC Bloggers] Reference

Zostera, and somewhat resembled a scourge of cords fastened to a handle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

The Zostera maritima is burnt in some places on the borders of the Baltic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

Zostera marina enhances community resistance to disturbance by grazing geese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

The Zostera of the warmer latitudes attain to a larger size than those of our Scottish seas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

Liimfjord was covered with a vigorous growth of aquatic plants, belonging both to fresh and to salt water, especially Zostera marina.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

The bottom of the Liimfjord was covered with a vigorous growth of aquatic plants, belonging both to fresh and to salt water, especially Zostera marina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 05 (historical)] Reference

(Zostera japonica) for example, converts tidal flats, important foraging grounds for shorebirds, to eelgrass beds and alters nutrient fluxes in its invasive range in the Pacific Northwest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

Could we obtain a deep section of the bottom, we should find beds of Ostrea edulis and Cardium edule, then a layer of Zostera marina with fresh-water fish, and then a bed of Mytilus edulis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

(The Pond-weed Tribe.) Zostera marina, L. Eel-Grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

Zostera marina) habitat because of disease in the northwest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference

"It is very remarkable that the Zostera marina, a sea-plant, was destroyed even where no sand was deposited.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference

Image 1: "Ectocarpus siliculosus" (here growing on Zostera) occurs mainly along coastlines in temperate latitudes (Photo: Akira Peters, Station Biologique.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

Zostera marina, L. West Florida, and northward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

Zostera marina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Zostera marina, 547.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

Zostera tnarins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Zostera, and turtlegrass, Thalassia).    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference