单词 | meadow fescue |
释义 | > as lemmasmeadow fescue 4. More fully fescue-grass: A genus ( Festuca) of grasses. hard fescue, sheep's fescue, meadow fescue: translations of the botanical names of species, F. duriuscula, F. ovina, F. pratensis. Also Chewings fescue [ < the name of Charles Chewings (1859–1937)] , a New Zealand pasture and lawn grass, Festuca rubra subsp. commutata. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > fescue grasses fescue1762 float-fescue1762 sheep's fescue1762 reed fescue1830 bunch-grass1837 rat's tail fescue1858 capon's-tail grass- 1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica Index Fescue-grass, hard, meadow, sheep's, tall. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xiii. 144 Sheep's-fescue is a well known grass, always to be found in dry pastures, and sheep commons. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xiii. 145 The seeds of the flote Fescue sown in a dry soil, become the first year spiked, and the second meadow Fescue-grass. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 187 Fesque grass (Festuco) many species. 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. viii. 315 Tall fescue grass stands highest. 1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. II. xxiv. 176 Short sedges and fescue-grass. 1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. I. 863/2 The hard fescue. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 78 Sweeping the frothfly from the fescue. 1917 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses viii. 152 Seeds of Chewing's Fescue should have a purity of 90 to 95 per cent. 1925 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 31 357 Mr. Chewings harvested the fescue-field and marketed the seed, presumably as ‘Chewings's fescue’. This would be about the year 1885. 1954 C. E. Hubbard Grasses 115 The name ‘Chewings Fescue’ is from a Mr. Chewings who first sold its seed in New Zealand. meadow fescue meadow fescue n. (more fully meadow fescue-grass) a flat-leaved Eurasian fescue, Festuca pratensis, grown for hay and pasture in Europe and North America. ΚΠ 1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica Index at Fescue-grass Meadow fescue-grass. 1794 T. Martyn tr. J. J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. (ed. 4) xiii. 139 Meadow Fescue..has a culm two feet high. 1861 J. E. Sowerby & C. Johnson Grasses Great Brit. 110 The Meadow Fescue Grass is one of those that contribute most abundantly to the herbage of all rich natural pastures. 1983 M. Stansfield New Herdsman's Bk. iv. 46 Ryegrass, timothy, meadow fescue and clover are certainly preferred species. < as lemmas |
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