| 单词 | prickly grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprickly grass prickly grass n. grass with stiff, pointed leaves or bristly spikelets, esp. spinifex of Australia (genus Triodia) and cockspur (genus Echinochloa). ΚΠ 1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland iii. 129 The Isle produces nothing but a sort of green, short, hard, prickly Grass. 1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 54 Echinochloa P. de B. Prickly-grass. 1957 D. McClintock Suppl. to Pocket Guide Wild Flowers 44 Prickly grass, Tragus racemosus (L.) Allioni, is an annual with..fewer globular..1-flowered spikelets all fertile and very rough with hooked bristles. 2002 Washington Times (Nexis) 1 May e1 We snaked our way on foot..along an uphill path of red-orange dirt dotted with spinefex [sic] (a prickly grass), which we were warned to avoid. < as lemmas |
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