释义 |
kaoliang|ˈkeɪəʊljæŋ| [Chinese; lit. ‘high grain’.] The Indian millet, Sorghum vulgare.
1904Westm. Gaz. 5 Sept. 7/1 The kao-ling (millet). 1909Official Hist. Russo-Jap. War (ed. 2) I. vi. 56 The advanced guard..erected screens of kao-liang and trees at every point. 1923Chambers's Jrnl. 40/2, I found the god of rain..glaring at me from the middle of a parched kaoliang patch. 1928Brit. Chem. Abstracts B. 443 A relatively easy-bleaching soda pulp can be obtained from the stalk of ‘Kaoliang’. 1945R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 265 The field of fire was invariably obscured by meadows of high-standing kao-ling. 1958A. N. Steward Man. Vasc. Plants Lower Yangtze Valley 485 Sorghum vulgare..(Kao Liang; Tall Millet)... Cultivated in warm countries. |