| 单词 | mountain rice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain rice mountain rice n. (a) a variety of rice grown in upland districts without irrigation; (b) U.S. any of various grasses of the genus Oryzopsis, esp. O. hymenoides, used as grain by North American Indians. 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 1790 B. Vaughan Let. 27 Mar. in T. Jefferson Papers (1961) XVI. 274 I have now the pleasure to send some dry or mountain rice, of the Red or best sort, gathered by Lieutt. Bligh at Timor. 1817 A. Eaton Man. Bot. 12 Oryzopsis..asperifolia, (mountain rice). 1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 45/2 It has been hoped that the mountain rice, which is known to grow at considerable elevations in the Himalayan Mountains, might be suited to an English climate. 1945 H. T. Darlington Higher Plants Michigan 17 Common species of grass that furnish some nutrient to grazing animals in the early part of the season are wild oat-grass.., sheep fescue.., mountain rice. 1992 A. Bell tr. M. Toussaint-Samat Hist. Food vi. 163 The main basis of the rice liquor called sake is mountain rice, which is very rich in nitrogen, or sticky rice. < as lemmas |
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