单词 | rattle grass |
释义 | > as lemmasrattle grass rattle grass n. (a) any of several kinds of rattle (sense 1) found as weeds in meadows and pastures, esp. (more fully red rattle grass) = red rattle n. (now rare); (b) quaking grass, Briza media. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > lousewort or red rattle lousewort1578 rattle grass1578 red rattle1578 mimmulus1633 pipeweed1702 wood betony1886 Indian warrior1897 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lvi. 515 Rattel grasse..beareth redde flowers, and leaues finely iagged or snipt. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 913 Red Rattle..hath very small, rent, or iagged leaues, of a browne redde colour... It is called..in English Rattle grass, red Rattle grasse, and Lousewoort. 1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 186 Rattle-grass. Of this there are two kindes, which I shall speak of, viz. the red and the yellow... The common red Rattle, hath sundry reddish, hollow stalks, and sometimes green rising from the Roots... The common yellow Rattle hath seldom above one round green stalk [etc.]. 1735 W. Ellis Pract. Farming & Husb. 233 The Penny, or Rattle Grass has a Leaf like Wood-bine full of Notches, blows with a yellow Flower, and when that goes off, and its brown Head rattles if shaken, then it's time to mow it. 1855 W. Howitt Land, Labour & Gold I. ix. 165 There is a shrub..something like a chrysanthemum; but is covered with masses of hop-like seed-cases, like those of the rattle-grass (Rhinanthus crista-galli). 1856 W. J. Hooker & T. B. Salter Bromfield's Flora Vectensis 602 B. media..Common Quaking-grass. Quakers... Rattle-grass. Maiden's-hair. Totter-grass. 1911 Times 21 June 7/6 The weed known as yellow rattle, rattles, rattle-grass, cock's-comb and horsepenny is very abundant in some districts this season. 2000 Washington Times (Nexis) 5 Aug. a1 Steer clear of musk thistle, tropical soda apple and puncture vine, not to mention skeletonweed and rattle grass. < as lemmas |
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