| 单词 | french grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFrench grass French grass n. now historical common sainfoin, Onobrychis viciifolia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > sainfoin cock's head1553 red fitchling1597 French grass1652 sainfoin1652 esperate1659 holy haya1661 esparcet1669 red fitch1671 snail clover-grass1717 holy grass1778 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxvii. 186 St. Foyne is a French Grass much sowed there, upon their barren, dry, hasky Lands. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 277 I could have no prospect of mowing a good swarth in the French-grass. 1947 D. H. Robinson Leguminous Forage Plants (ed. 2) vi. 74 Sainfoin, also known as Esparcette and French grass, is a perennial plant with a strong, well-developed root system. 2001 Archit. Hist. 44 337 This ‘French grass’ was presumably sainfoin, a superior source of fodder for horses first introduced into England from France earlier in the seventeenth century. < as lemmas |
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