单词 | hair-grass |
释义 | hair-grassn. A name for grasses of the Linnæan genus Aira. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > hair-grass hair-grass1759 tussock-grass1861 bull-poll1880 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). < n.1759 |
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