单词 | reed bed |
释义 | reed bedn. A stand of reeds; an area of water or marshland dominated by reeds. ΘΚΠ 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 reedeOE spirea1250 reed bed1483 reedbeere1585 stover1621 reedlings1830 spire-bed1863 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). < n.OE |
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