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单词 purple grass
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purple grassn.

Brit. /ˌpəːpl ˈɡrɑːs/, /ˌpəːpl ˈɡras/, U.S. /ˌpərp(ə)l ˈɡræs/
Forms: see purple adj. and n. and grass n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: purple adj., grass n.1
Etymology: < purple adj. + grass n.1
Now rare.
1. Any of various clovers or clover-like plants, including white clover, Trifolium repens, and spotted medick, Medicago arabica.
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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).
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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).
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