| 单词 | mousetail grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmousetail grass a. In full mousetail grass. A foxtail grass with a slender spike, esp. black grass, Alopecurus myosuroides. Also (British regional) in plural with singular agreement. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > foxtail grass foxtail1552 foxtail-grass1597 mousetail grass1696 black grass1733 bottle grass1813 float-fox-tails1816 1696 J. Ray Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. (1724) 397 Gramen myosuroides majus... The greater Mouse-tail-Grass... Gramen myosuroides minus... The lesser Mouse-tail-Grass. 1766 Museum Rusticum 6 442 Field Fox-tail..or Mouse-tail Grass. 1792–4 T. Martyn Flora Rustica 22 Alopecurus agrestis. Field Fox-tail Grass, or Mouse-tail Grass. 1868 Galaxy June 693 The slender fox-tail, also called in some districts mouse-tail, has..a purplish colored spike. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Mousetails, a kind of grass, perhaps Cats'-tail, but not Myosurus. 1961 E. Salisbury Weeds & Aliens vi. 153 To its dense tapering cylindrical inflorescence, often over 2 in. long and less than ¼ in. wide, it owes the name of Mousetail Grass. mousetail grass b. A fescue grass of the genus Vulpia having a narrow panicle; spec. (more fully mousetail fescue (also mousetail fescue-grass), † mousetail grass), rat's-tail fescue, V. myuros. ΚΠ 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 760/2 Mousetail, Mygalurus. 1872 J. T. B. Syme Sowerby's Eng. Bot. (ed. 3) XI. 142 Festuca Myuros Linn... Subspecies II. Festuca Pseudo-myuros, Soyer-Willemet... Mouse-tail Fescue-grass. French, Fétuque fausse queue de rat. 1880 T. R. A. Briggs Flora of Plymouth 375 F. Pseudo-myurus Soyer. Mouse-tail Fescue-Grass. Native; on wall-tops. 1890 Cent. Dict. Mousetail-grass, Festuca Myurus. 1937 A. H. Wolley-Dod Flora of Sussex 519 F. Myurus... Mouse-tail Fescue... Sandy ground, walls and waysides. 1989 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 116 271/1 Vulpia myuros... Mousetail. Rare (Water Island); mesic thickets on backslopes of stabilized dunes. < as lemmas |
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