单词 | mountain grass |
释义 | > as lemmasmountain grass mountain grass n. [compare classical Latin montānum grāmen] a grass growing in mountainous country; esp. blue moor grass, Sesleria caerulea, and purple moor grass, Molinia caerulea. ΚΠ 1676 N. Lee Sophonisba i. i. 5 You look like wither'd Flowers, or Mountain grass. 1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 80 in Farm-rep. The sweetest of the mountain-grass. 1957 E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways (1967) iv. 56 I have seen heather used [for thatching] in north Donegal, and in other areas..rushes and ‘mountain grass’ (probably Molinea [sic]). 1961 R. W. Butcher New Illustr. Brit. Flora II. 961 Sesleria cærulea... The Blue Mountain Grass is a small, tufted perennial with sub-erect stems. 1989 J. Hobbs Thoughts in Makeshift Mortuary 251 The straw flowers that star the mountain grass in summer. < as lemmas |
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