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单词 hair-grass
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hair-grassn.

Etymology: After Latin generic name Aira, with reference to the slender hair-like branches.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhair-grass.
A name for grasses of the Linnæan genus Aira.
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1759 B. Stillingfleet Observ. Grasses in Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 205 To give such [names] as..approach as near as possible to the Latin names in sound where they could not be interpreted... Thus i have called the aira hair-grass, the bromus brome grass, &c.
1798 Trans. Soc. Arts 16 123 The grass it now produces (chiefly the aira or hair grass) is so hard and wiry.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. (at cited word) Aira, The tufted Hair-grass..is one of the tallest-growing British grasses.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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