| 单词 | porcupine grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasporcupine grass porcupine grass n. (a) Australian any of several spinifex grasses, esp. Triodia pungens and T. irritans; (b) U.S. any of several grasses with distinctive upright growth habit, esp. Hesperostipa spartea of the midwestern and western plains, and Miscanthus sinensis ‘Strictus’, which is popular as an ornamental for its striking gold-banded foliage. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > Australian grasses silver grass1600 buffalo grass1784 cane grass1827 porcupine grass1842 tussock-grass1842 spinifex1846 spear-grass1847 rice grass1848 sugar-grass1862 blue star grass1876 wiregrass1883 windmill-grass1889 danthonia1918 Wimmera rye-grass1920 niggerhead1923 1842 G. C. Hawker Diary 15 June in Austral. Nat. Dict. (1988) 495/1 Passed through a few patches of scrub & some very bad country covered with porcupine grass. 1857 A. Gray First Lessons Bot. 549 Porcupine Grass..Plains and prairies, from Illinois and N. Michigan northwestward. 1911 C. E. W. Beaw Dreadnought of Darling xv. 143 Porcupine grass—curious small green clumps of spiky grass, rather the shape of a porcupine, which, however green, will blaze like kerosene. 1969 Ecology 50 498 The term ‘spinifex’ is used in this paper to describe all species of porcupine grass (genus Triodea), a plant life form unique to the Australian continent. 2003 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 7 Sept. 4 Strictus, commonly known as Porcupine grass, has a stiff vertical form that glows with bands of yellow horizontal variegation. < as lemmas |
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