Etymograph

English

Neptune grass

From Neptune (the Roman sea god, because it grows in the sea) + grass (from seagrass).

A compound of Neptune + grass

Latin Neptūnus

Middle English Neptune

English Neptune

Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- ‘to grow’

Proto-Germanic *grasą

Proto-West Germanic *gras

Old English græs

Middle English gras ‘a grass’

English grass

Today it means

noun Posidonia oceanica, a seagrass native to the Mediterranean.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Neptune grass