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单词 reed bed
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reed bedn.

Brit. /ˈriːdbɛd/, U.S. /ˈridˌbɛd/
Forms: see reed n.1 and bed n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: reed n.1, bed n.
Etymology: < reed n.1 + bed n.
A stand of reeds; an area of water or marshland dominated by reeds.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > reed or the reed plant > collective or bed of reeds
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OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Exod. (Claud.) ii. 3 Heo..asette hine on anum hreodbedde [L. carecto] be þæs flodes ofre.
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) viii. 52 Ðeos wyrt..bið cenned on feldon & on dicon & on hreodbeddon [L. circa fossas et arundineta].
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 302 A Rede bede, arundinetum, cannetum.
1677 E. Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat. A Reed-bed, cannetum, arundinetum.
1725 R. Bradley Surv. Anc. Husb. & Gardening 293 When we break up an old Reed Bed, it is a common Rule to burn the Ground with the Stubble.
1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II ii. 97 Streams of guiltless blood Stain their green reed-beds, and pollute their flood.
1843 Zoologist 1 97 The reed-beds on the banks of the Thames.
1897 E. Conybeare Hist. Cambs. 5 The Great Copper butterfly..no longer brightens the reed-beds.
1941 J. Masefield Gautama the Enlightened 26 The reed-beds stood up still With some leaves trembling.
1974 W. Condry Woodlands ix. 101 Reeds increasingly invade the pool until it becomes a complete reed-bed.
2007 Daily Tel. 20 June 32/5 The noise of London drops away, and you enter this strange landscape of immense skies, pebbly beaches, and endless reed-beds.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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