| 单词 | sage-brush |
| 释义 | > as lemmassage-brush sage-brush n. a collective term for various species of Artemisia, esp. A. tridentata; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > Artemisia or mugwort mugworteOE artemisiaOE mugweeda1400 motherwort1440 matricary1523 French wormwood1548 holy wormwood1548 sea-mugwort1548 sea-wormwood1548 tree wormwood1548 Roman wormwood1551 southernwood1577 garden cypress1578 mouse-wort1607 field southernwood1739 sage1805 hyssop1807 sage-bush1807 appleringie1808 absinth1841 sage-brush1850 1850 K. Webster Gold Seekers of '49 (1917) iii. 84 We were compelled to tie our mules to sage brush to keep them from straying away. 1861 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. (1917) I. 54 On the plains, sage-brush and grease-wood grow about twice as large as the common geranium. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 233 Confined to the sterile plains and sage-brush (Artemisia) tracts of Western U.S. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. xlvii. 217 A desert..whose lower grounds were covered with that growth of alkaline plants which the Americans call sage-brush. 1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) 191 We began to toil in the ankle-deep sand of a little sage-brush flat. 1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) v. 53 A few forms like sage-brush or creosote bush..repeat themselves for fifty miles on end. 1976 Sci. Amer. Oct. 20/3 Strong lives with his wife and 11-year-old daughter in pine and sagebrush country overlooking the Rio Grande. 1977 J. F. Fixx Compl. Bk. Running ii. 25 We are in a canyon surrounded by mountains, trees and sagebrush. < as lemmas |
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