单词 | nimble will |
释义 | > as lemmasnimble Will nimble Will n. (also Nimblewill) U.S. a fast-spreading grass, Muhlenbergia schreberi, of the eastern and central U.S., sometimes used for pasture. 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 1816 D. Thomas Jrnl. 10 July in Trav. Western Country (1819) 168 He pointed out to me a grass, of which I had heard much, known through all the western country by the name of nimble Will. 1865 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1861–4 5 863 The Muhlenbergia diffusa, or Nimble Will, is a common grass, which is rather known as a troublesome weed. 1968 F. W. Gould Grass Systematics 261 Typical of the eastern species [of the genus Muhlenbergia] is M. schreberi Gmel, Nimblewill..which ranges from the Atlantic Coast westward to Nebraska and Texas. < as lemmas |
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