| 单词 | mesquite grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmesquite grass 2. In full mesquite grass. Any of various pasture grasses, esp. of the genus Bouteloua, which grow in association with mesquite trees. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > North American salt grass1704 wiregrass1751 Indian grass1765 buffalo grass1784 blue-eyed grass1785 mountain rice1790 nimble Will1816 yard-grass1822 mesquite1831 poverty-grass1832 tickle-moth1833 bunch-grass1837 naked-beard grass1848 needle grass1848 Means grass1858 toothache-grass1860 Johnson grass1873 Indian rice grass1893 nigger babies1897 St. Augustine grass1905 pinyon ricegrass1935 1831 M. Holley Texas (1833) vi. 69 The pasturage here..called Muskit grass, (pronounced Muskeet) bears a strong resemblance to the blue grass. 1847 Western Texas 7 In grasses the glory of the State is the musquit, found only in Western Texas. 1852 W. B. Dewees & ‘C. Cardelle’ Lett. from Early Settler Texas 35 The musquit grass grows very thick and about three feet high, and looks very much like a blue grass pasture. 1857 F. L. Olmsted Journey through Texas 135 A great change occurred here in the prairie grass—we had reached the mesquit grass. 1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 649/2 A shimmering prairie of mesquite. 1956 H. St. John Flora S.E. Washington 46 Holcus lanatus... Velvet grass or mesquite. 1995 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 28 May a1 His boots planted amidst prickly pear and gray mesquite grass..DeVere looked out across a vast Zane Grey landscape. < as lemmas |
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