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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
tape grass
    n 1: submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World
         and Australia [syn: tape grass, eelgrass, wild
         celery, Vallisneria spiralis]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tape \Tape\, n. [AS. t[ae]ppe a fillet. Cf. Tapestry,
   Tippet.]
   1. A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven
      fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied
      with tape.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A tapeline; also, a metallic ribbon so marked as to serve
      as a tapeline; as, a steel tape.
      [1913 Webster]

   Red tape. See under Red.

   Tape grass (Bot.), a plant (Vallisneria spiralis) with
      long ribbonlike leaves, growing in fresh or brackish
      water; -- called also fresh-water eelgrass, and, in
      Maryland, wild celery.

   Tape needle. See Bodkin, n., 4.
      [1913 Webster]

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