单词 | agrostography |
释义 | agrostographyn. Now rare. A systematic account or description of the grasses; the branch of botany concerned with this. Cf. agrostology n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > botany > [noun] > study of specific parts or types of plants > grasses agrostography1764 agrostology1820 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Agrostographia, in physiology, the history, or description of gramens, or plants of the grassy kind.] 1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. (at cited word) Agrostography, among naturalists, implies the history, or description of grasses. 1823 N.-Y. Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 382 He appears to have been peculiarly successful..embracing the best features in the Agrostography of Beauvois. and the recent and elegant system of Trin. 1866 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 4 57 In the present unsatisfactory condition of agrostography, the limits between various Triticoid and Festucoid genera..cannot be determined. 1878 Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1877 225 The flora of Liguria, as well as the fragmentary records of Egyptian Agrostography, equally attest his profound knowledge in every branch of botany. 1970 Taxon 19 420 Trinius was in a position to lay the foundation of modern agrostography. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1764 |
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