| 单词 | red-top grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred-top grass 1. Of a plant or plant part: having a red (or purple) top; esp. in red-top grass (= sense B. 1). Cf. red-topped adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > appearance of plant > plant defined by colour or marking > [adjective] > having particular type marking or colouring streaked1600 marbled1629 muscadine1646 agated1665 silver-cupped1688 red-top1705 tessellated1723 lineate1777 fancy1793 red-tipped1800 areolated1802 white-lipped1813 variegated1818 pennaceous1819 streak-flowered1822 limbate1826 unbroken1829 sanguine-heart1840 rivulose1843 pencilled1846 areolate1847 notate1857 sigillate1858 discolor1859 discolorous1860 fumose1866 fumous1866 tricolour1866 unnetted1869 1705 R. Beverley Hist. Virginia iv. xvii. 56 It was formerly said of the Red-top Turnip, that..it degenerated into Rape. 1741 Family Mag. 146/1 Milder antiscorbutick Specificks. Male southernwood,..red-top cabbage. 1790 S. Deane New-Eng. Farmer 115/1 The red top grass is so natural to every soil in this country, that all our old fields..are full of it. 1884 Harper's Mag. July 247/1 They began with red-top clover. 1901 G. W. James Indian Basketry xii. 203 The volutes are formed by the stem of red-top grass and of a round-topped variety of the ‘chenopodium’. 1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 9 Mar. 5/3 The birds [sc. prairie chickens] would survive when redtop grass was raised, since it was combined in midsummer. 2005 Jrnl. Lab. & Clin. Med. 145 264/2 Atopic status was assessed by means of skin-prick testing for..grass-pollen mix (Kentucky, orchard, red-top timothy). < as lemmas |
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