| 单词 | american chaffseed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAmerican chaffseed chaffseed n. (also American chaffseed) a perennial herbaceous plant native to the eastern United States, Schwalbea americana (family Orobanchaceae), which is a hemiparasite associated with a large range of host plants.Perhaps so called because the fruit (a capsule) is surrounded by a membranous sac. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [noun] > wild wilding1577 volunteer1657 wildling1840 escape1870 chaff-seed- 1817 A. Eaton Man. Bot. 70 Schwalbea..americana, (chaff-seed) stem square, hairy, leaves lanceolate. 1978 L. J. Musselman & W. F. Mann Root Parasites Southern Forests (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 53 Chaffseed is the rarest parasitic seed plant in the South. 2000 Nature Conservancy Mar. 27/3 This site..is the only known site west of Georgia where the federally listed as endangered plant American chaffseed is found. < as lemmas |
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