cut-grassn.

Etymology: < cut v. Compounds: literally ‘grass that cuts’.

A genus of grasses, Leersia, esp. the species L. oryzoides, the range of which extends as far north as the south of England.

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white grass1780

rice grass1818

cut-grass1849

1849 W. A. Bromfield in Phytologist 3 683 Cut-grass..[is] remarkable for..extreme asperity, which even makes some precaution requisite to avoid cutting the hand, an accident that is said to befal the women employed in weeding it out of the rice-fields in Lombardy.

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Cut-grass,..a species of grass, with leaves exceedingly rough backward, so as to cut the hands if drawn across them.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	cut-grass
释义	cut-grassn. Etymology: < cut v. Compounds: literally ‘grass that cuts’. A genus of grasses, Leersia, esp. the species L. oryzoides, the range of which extends as far north as the south of England. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > cut-grass white grass1780 rice grass1818 cut-grass1849 1849 W. A. Bromfield in Phytologist 3 683 Cut-grass..[is] remarkable for..extreme asperity, which even makes some precaution requisite to avoid cutting the hand, an accident that is said to befal the women employed in weeding it out of the rice-fields in Lombardy. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Cut-grass,..a species of grass, with leaves exceedingly rough backward, so as to cut the hands if drawn across them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1849
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