salt grass (salt gras)

A collective name of gra es growing in salt-meadows, consisting largely of species of Spartina. Sporobolus airoides, which affords considerable pasturage on arid plains in the western United States, is also so called, as is Distich lis maritima, which inhabits both localities. salt-greent (salt'grēn), a. Green like the sea. salt-group (salt gröp), n. In geol., a group or series of rocks containing salt in considerable quantity. Onondaga salt-group, a series of rocks occupying a position nearly in the middle of the Upper Silurian, and especially well developed in central New York, where it is of great economical importance on account of the salt which it affords: so named from the county of Onondaga, where for many years the manufac IMG:content-0014.png:[blocks in formation] Salina group . salt-holder (sâlt'holder), n. A salt-cellar. "Be propitious, O Bacchus!" said Glaucus, inclining reverentially to a beautiful image of the god placed in the centre of the table, at the corners of which stood the Lares and the salt -holders. Bulwer , Last Days of Pompeii, i. 3. salt-horse (sâlt'hôrs'), n. Salt beef. [Sailors' slang.] By way of change from that substantial fare called salt horse and hard-tack. C. M. Scammon, Marine Mammals, p. 123. Salticidæ (sal-tis'i-dē), n . pl . [NL., Salticus +-idæ.] A family of vagabond dip neum on ous spiders, typified by the genus Salticus , containing active saltatorial species which spin no web, but prowl about to spring upon their prey. They are known as jumping or leaping spiders . Salticus (sal'ti-kus), n. [NL., LL. salticus , dancing, typical of the family Salticide. in