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). < adj.n.1656 |
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