单词 | danthonia |
释义 | danthonian. Botany. A member of a large genus of tufted perennial pasture grasses so named, chiefly of Australia and New Zealand. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > Australian grasses silver grass1600 buffalo grass1784 cane grass1827 porcupine grass1842 tussock-grass1842 spinifex1846 spear-grass1847 rice grass1848 sugar-grass1862 blue star grass1876 wiregrass1883 windmill-grass1889 danthonia1918 Wimmera rye-grass1920 niggerhead1923 1863 Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sci. 2 182 Danthonia Californica (California Oat Grass)..on borders of cultivated fields near the bay of Oakland. 1870 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1869 2 104 Danthonia semi-annularis, a variable grass found in nearly all soils and situations throughout the colony.] 1918 Jrnl. Agric. (N.Z.) 20 Mar. 135 On poor tussock country..the use of danthonia invariably increases the carrying capacity. 1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xix. 167 On hard hill-tops and narrow ridges and knobs, danthonia and micrœlena had grouped themselves in little companies. 1952 A. R. D. Fairburn Three Poems 59 In time of drought The danthonia shines like a flame. 1955 Landfall 9 108 The paddock of dry danthonia grass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1918 |
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