| 单词 | pascual | 
| 释义 | pascualadj.n.  Originally: of or relating to pastureland. Later, of a plant (in H. C. Watson's terminology): growing in pasture or sheep-grazed grassland. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > 			[adjective]		 > growing in meadow, pasture, heath, or hedgerow pascual1656 pratal1847 septal1847 ericetal1876 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > 			[adjective]		 > pasture > relating to pastural1559 pascual1656 pascuous1656 1656    T. Blount Glossographia  				Pascal [L. pascalis], feeding here, and there abroad, belonging to pasture. 1847    H. C. Watson Cybele Britannica I. 65  				The proposed series of terms runs thus:—1. Pratal... 2. Pascual.—Plants of pastures and grassy commons, where the herbage is usually less luxuriant than in the meadow~lands, [etc.]. 1863    J. G. Baker N. Yorks. Stud. 183  				We may employ a series of adjectives such as sylvestral, pratal, pascual, ericetal [etc.]. 1883    Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 21 375  				No hard and fast line can be drawn between Pascual and Pratal plants.  B. n.   A plant that grows in pasture or sheep-grazed grassland. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > 			[noun]		 > growing in meadow, pasture, or heath heatha700 mead-flower1826 pascual1847 1847    H. C. Watson Cybele Britannica I. 67  				The pratal plants are occasionally pascual plants, as Phleum pratense; the pascuals are in turn ericetals, as Prunella vulgaris. 1926    G. C. Druce in  J. J. Walker Nat. Hist. Oxf. District 96  				Carex tomentosa L., usually classed as a paludal, is a pascual in its only known Oxford locality near Burford. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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