单词 | paspalum |
释义 | Paspalumn. A large genus of tropical and subtropical (esp. South American) grasses which have unilateral racemes bearing adpressed spikelets and which include important species grown in their own area and elsewhere as fodder or cereal plants; (also paspalum) grass, or a grass, of this genus (also paspalum grass). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > grasses used for hay or pasture windlestrawc1000 red grass1582 spring grass1643 sweet-grass1709 herd-grass1747 Guinea grass1756 vernal grass1762 vernal1771 Paspalum1772 buffalo grass1784 Rhode Island bent1790 red-top1792 finetop1824 kangaroo-grass1827 gamagrass1831 sweet vernal grass1839 yellow-top1839 grama1844 sesame grass1845 sacate1848 Para grass1850 Hungarian1859 alfilaria1860 sacaton1865 Mitchell grass1867 teosinte1877 Landsborough grass1883 turnip-grass1889 brown top1891 ichu1891 manna1897 Rhodes grass1903 Sudan1911 Kikuyu grass1913 never-fail1923 buffel grass1955 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > tropical > paspalum grasses sour grass1756 Paspalum1772 joint-grass1790 Hilo grass1888 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [adjective] > of particular type rooigras1875 Paspalum1906 kunai1933 zoysia1965 1772 R. Weston Universal Botanist III. 547 Round-flowered American Paspalum. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 302/1 Paspalum..is a genus of grasses, which..forms one of the small grains cultivated in tropical countries as food for the poorer classes. 1857 4th Ann. Rep. Mass. Board Agric. 84 Hairy Slender Paspalum..has an erect or decumbent, slender culm, from one to two feet high. 1884 G. Vasey Agric. Grasses U.S. 31 Paspalum laeve. (Smooth paspalum.) This species grows from 2 to 4 feet high. 1906 Chambers's Jrnl. 24 Feb. 207/2 Paspalum Grass..has been known in the United States since 1880, where it is called hairy and flowered paspalum. 1929 Contrib. U.S. National Herbarium 28 4 Paspalum-grass..was introduced into the southern United States from Uruguay or Argentina about the middle of the last century. 1962 Coast to Coast 1961–2 94 In no time weeds and paspalum had hidden the grave. 1989 Jrnl. Heredity 80 24/2 This is especially true for most warm-season grasses, including the genus Paspalum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1772 |
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