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单词 rope grass
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rope grass
rope grass n. any of various grasses or grass-like plants resembling rope or used for making rope.
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1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. 48 Ropegrass with a simple nodding panicle, and the blossoms not fringed—Panicle red... Purple melic grass... In the Isle of Rasa they make this grass into ropes for fishing nets.
1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Rope-grass, the common name of the plants of the genus Restio, from the supple shoots of many of the species being used as withes at the Cape of Good Hope.
1877 Once a Week 28 Apr. 118/2 The man-eater had killed an adventurous dhobi, or washerman, who had presumed to lay aside his hereditary trade and go cutting rope grass on the hills.
2007 R. Darke Encycl. Grasses for Livable Landscapes 224 Ampelodesmos mauritanicus... Vine reed, Mauritania vine reed, rope grass... The generic and common names of this plant refer to the early use of this plant to tie grapevines.
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