英语词汇“grass nut”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

grass nut n. chiefly U.S. any of various sedges or similar plants having small, edible tubers and often cultivated as crops, esp. the nutgrass Cyperus esculentus; (also) the tuber itself.Cf. chufa n.

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1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 27 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1991) VII. 292 One..had in his mouth two small bulbs of a speceis [sic] of grass, which resemble very much what is sometimes called the grassnut.

1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes (1843) 184 He was..raised upon nothing but grass-nuts and sweet potatoes.

1875 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 5 377 Under the popular name of grass-nut there is included a large number of plants with a small, round, bulbous root, all of which, with one exception, the Indians eat with much satisfaction.

1921 Weekly News Let. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 6 July 8/1 Some stories tell of grass nuts being dug up after 30 years' burial and still sprouting.

2017 M. M. Iwu Food as Med. x. 326 Cyperus esculentus... Common Names: Tigernut, yellow nutsedge, Chufa flatsedge, earth-almond, grass nut, rushnut, souchet sultan.

单词	grass nut
释义	> as lemmas grass nut grass nut n. chiefly U.S. any of various sedges or similar plants having small, edible tubers and often cultivated as crops, esp. the nutgrass Cyperus esculentus; (also) the tuber itself.Cf. chufa n. ΚΠ 1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 27 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1991) VII. 292 One..had in his mouth two small bulbs of a speceis [sic] of grass, which resemble very much what is sometimes called the grassnut. 1835 A. B. Longstreet Georgia Scenes (1843) 184 He was..raised upon nothing but grass-nuts and sweet potatoes. 1875 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 5 377 Under the popular name of grass-nut there is included a large number of plants with a small, round, bulbous root, all of which, with one exception, the Indians eat with much satisfaction. 1921 Weekly News Let. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 6 July 8/1 Some stories tell of grass nuts being dug up after 30 years' burial and still sprouting. 2017 M. M. Iwu Food as Med. x. 326 Cyperus esculentus... Common Names: Tigernut, yellow nutsedge, Chufa flatsedge, earth-almond, grass nut, rushnut, souchet sultan. extracted from grassn.¹ < as lemmas
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