单词 | purple grass |
释义 | purple grassn. Now rare. 1. Any of various clovers or clover-like plants, including white clover, Trifolium repens, and spotted medick, Medicago arabica. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil white clovereOE cloverc1000 hare-foota1300 clerewort?a1400 clover-grassa1400 three-leaved grass14.. trefoilc1400 sucklingc1440 four-leaved grassc1450 trefle1510 Trifolium?1541 trinity grass1545 Dutch1548 lote1548 hare's-foot1562 lotus1562 triple grass1562 blain-grass1570 meadow trefoil1578 purple grass1597 purplewort1597 satin flower1597 cithyse1620 true-love grass?a1629 garden balsam1633 hop-clover1679 Burgundian hay1712 strawberry trefoil1731 honeysuckle trefoil1735 red clover1764 buffalo-clover1767 marl-grass1776 purple trefoil1785 white trefoil1785 yellow trefoil1785 sulla1787 cow-grass1789 strawberry-bearing trefoil1796 zigzag trefoil1796 rabbit's foot1817 lotus grass1820 strawberry-headed trefoil1822 mountain liquorice1836 hop-trefoil1855 clustered clover1858 alsike1881 mountain clover1882 knop1897 Swedish clover1908 sub clover1920 four-leaf clover1927 suckle- 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. cccclxxxiv. 1028 This kinde of three leafed Grasse, or rather fower leafed Trefoile, hath leaues like vnto the common medow Trefoile, sauing that they be lesser, and [printed ahd] of a browne purplish colour, knowne by the name of Purple Woort, or Purple Grasse. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1112 The purple grasse spreadeth on the ground, the leaves are in some three in others foure or five on a stalke, of a sad greene colour, with a shadow of darke purple cast over them. 1738 G. C. Deering Catalogus Stirpium 220 Heart Trefoil or Clover, by some called Purple Grass, from the Colour of the spots on the middle of the Leaves. 1932 E. B. Fred et al. Root Nodule Bacteria & Leguminous Plants viii. 124 Trifolium repens L. White clover.., shamrock, white trefoil, purple grass, purple wort. 2. Any of several North American grasses with purplish panicles, esp. Enneapogon desvauxii (formerly Pappophorum wrightii). ΚΠ 1862 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 386 The Purple Grass (Eragrostis pectinacea) is now in the height of its beauty. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Purple-grass, a slender, branching, rather low grass, Pappophorum Wrightii, with dense spike-like purple or lead-colored panicles, found in the south-western United States and adjacent Mexico. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597 |
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