| 单词 | poverty-grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoverty-grass poverty-grass n. (a) any of several North American grasses typically found on poor soil, esp. Aristida dichotoma; (b) = poverty plant n. 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 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > heather or heath and similar plants > [noun] > false heath poverty-grass1832 1832 Boston Evening Transcript 30 Apr. 2/3 Fields..long given up to barrenness and poverty-grass, are now broken up in readiness to receive the grain. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) ii. 20 A moss-like plant, Hudsonia tomentosa..called ‘poverty-grass’, because it grew where nothing else would. 1878 J. B. Killebrew Tenn. Grasses xix. 232 Aristida Dichotoma... It is called poverty grass because it is seldom seen except on old barren fields, too poor for cultivation. 1935 W. C. Muenscher Weeds i. ii. 43 Native herbs and shrubby species often encroach on the pasture... The early stages of such a change may consist largely of ‘poverty-grasses’, foxtail grass, wild asters, and goldenrods. 1988 Mid-Atlantic Country Mar. 66/3 There is sand everywhere—not polite, pristine ovals of it around the greens, but great, treacherous expanses of it, filled with ball-eating patches of poverty grass, scotch broom, and other nasty flora. < as lemmas |
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