| 单词 | marram grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarram grass 1. Originally English regional (East Anglian). More fully marram grass. A grass of coastal dunes, Ammophila arenaria, native to western Europe and widely planted elsewhere, with long dense spikes and tough spreading rhizomes which help to bind and stabilize the sand; also called sea-reed. Also: a related grass of North America, A. breviligulata. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > bent grass, rush, or sedge sedgec1000 flaga1387 sniddlea1400 bentc1425 helm1640 marram1640 beach-grass1681 spreta1700 bent-grass1777 marsh grass1785 sea-grass1791 sedge-grass1847 sand grass1856 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > other aquatic grasses reed-grass1597 marram1640 reed meadow grass1772 eel-grass1790 buttongrass1814 cutting grass1831 sea hard-grass1843 sea sand-reed1856 tape-grass1857 spinifex1877 surf-grass1923 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1200 We in English [call Spartum] Helme and Matweede, but the people all along the Coasts of Norfolke and Suffolke call it Marram. 1726 C. Threlkeld Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum K 5 Spartum Anglicanum..English Seamatweed, Marram, or Helm. 1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 383 Marram, or Marem, Arundo arenaria; sea-reed-grass. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 268 Dry sand, bound in a compact mass by the long creeping roots of the plant called Marram. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 427/2 Arundo arenaria, the sea-reed or marrum-grass. 1864 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. ii. 265 The Sea Maram. 1912 J. W. White Flora of Bristol 645 The great importance of the Marram as a means of restraining drifting sands may be recognized among the sand-hills near Berrow and Brean. 1947 Cape Times 2 May 9 Only 342 acres were planted to marram grass and kweek. 1962 D. Stuart Yaralie xiii. 123 All round her..was silence, except for the wind in the stiff grey marron grass. 1988 E. Wood et al. Sea Life Brit. & Ireland 146 Only marram is able to tolerate..repeated burial by sand. 1996 Nature 28 Mar. 285/1 A range of interacting factors in the dunes around the shores of Lake Huron..seem to play a part in the demise of marram grass (Ammophila breviligulata). < as lemmas |
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