sacatonzacatonn.

Brit.

/ˈsakətəʊn/,

/ˈzakətəʊn/, U.S.

/ˌsɑkəˈtoʊn/,

/ˌzɑkəˈtoʊn/

Forms: Also sacatone, † saccato, † saccaton(e), and with capital initial.

Etymology: < Mexican Spanish zacatón, augmentative of zacate (see sacate n.).

Any of several coarse, tough grasses grown in Mexico and the southern U.S.A. and used for hay, esp. species of Sporobolus and Epicampes; alkali sacaton, a tussock grass, Sporobolus airoides, able to survive drought and alkaline soils. Cf. sacate n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > plants used as fodder

bullimong1313

podder1468

tare1482

greens1607

lucerne1652

esperate1659

esparcet1669

tare-thistle1753

buckwheat1776

mangel-wurzel1787

mangold1848

sacate1848

sacaton1865

mangel-wurzel potato1875

mutter1875

ramon1885

cattle-bush1889

manna1897

beech-wheat-

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > grasses used for hay or pasture

windlestrawc1000

red grass1582

spring grass1643

sweet-grass1709

herd-grass1747

Guinea grass1756

vernal grass1762

vernal1771

Paspalum1772

buffalo grass1784

Rhode Island bent1790

red-top1792

finetop1824

kangaroo-grass1827

gamagrass1831

sweet vernal grass1839

yellow-top1839

grama1844

sesame grass1845

sacate1848

Para grass1850

Hungarian1859

alfilaria1860

sacaton1865

Mitchell grass1867

teosinte1877

Landsborough grass1883

turnip-grass1889

brown top1891

ichu1891

manna1897

Rhodes grass1903

Sudan1911

Kikuyu grass1913

never-fail1923

buffel grass1955

1865 Harper's Mag. Jan. 147/1 The grass consists of three principal varieties; the sacatone, a coarse, thick, and strong variety, growing in bunches; the mesquit..and the grama.

1886 Outing Dec. 223/2 We came upon a caved-in well, a wide hollow with a black bottom, covered with high rank grass, the Mexican zacaton.

1891 G. Vasey Illustr. N. Amer. Grasses (U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Bot.) I. i. (facing plate XXV) It [sc. Muhlenbergia distichophylla] is one of the grasses called saccato.

1891 G. Vasey Illustr. N. Amer. Grasses (U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Bot.) I. i. (facing plate XXVII) This [sc. Epicampes macroura] is another of the grasses called saccato, or saccatone.

1929 J. W. Bews World's Grasses v. 201 Two species of the S.W. States are important forage grasses in the arid or semi-arid regions of Nebraska, Arizona, and Texas—S[porobolus] wrightii Munro, ‘Saccaton’, and S. airoides Torr., ‘Alkali Saccaton’ or ‘Alkali Drop-seed’.

1936 J. A. McKenna Black Range Tales 177 The Indians..crept from rock to rock; they crawled like snakes from one bunch of sacatone to another.

1942 E. F. Castetter & W. H. Bell Pima & Papago Indian Agric. 22 Along the edges and in the openings of the forests of these two drainages, sacaton grass (Sporobolus Wrightii) thrives.

1968 F. W. Gould Grass Systematics v. 265 Sporobolus airoides (Torr.) Torr., alkali sacaton, is a characteristic bunchgrass of alkaline areas in the western states.

1972 G. Durrell Catch me Colobus ix. 194 The zacaton grass..is tall—as much as three feet high—a very pale golden-yellow in colour, and it grows in huge tussocks all over the soft, black, volcanic soil.

1977 A. V. Bogdan Trop. Pasture & Fodder Plants 181 Panicum maximum Jacq. Guinea grass;..Zacaton (Mexico).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sacaton
释义	sacatonzacatonn. Brit. /ˈsakətəʊn/, /ˈzakətəʊn/, U.S. /ˌsɑkəˈtoʊn/, /ˌzɑkəˈtoʊn/ Forms: Also sacatone, † saccato, † saccaton(e), and with capital initial. Etymology: < Mexican Spanish zacatón, augmentative of zacate (see sacate n.). Any of several coarse, tough grasses grown in Mexico and the southern U.S.A. and used for hay, esp. species of Sporobolus and Epicampes; alkali sacaton, a tussock grass, Sporobolus airoides, able to survive drought and alkaline soils. Cf. sacate n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > plants used as fodder bullimong1313 podder1468 tare1482 greens1607 lucerne1652 esperate1659 esparcet1669 tare-thistle1753 buckwheat1776 mangel-wurzel1787 mangold1848 sacate1848 sacaton1865 mangel-wurzel potato1875 mutter1875 ramon1885 cattle-bush1889 manna1897 beech-wheat- the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > grasses used for hay or pasture windlestrawc1000 red grass1582 spring grass1643 sweet-grass1709 herd-grass1747 Guinea grass1756 vernal grass1762 vernal1771 Paspalum1772 buffalo grass1784 Rhode Island bent1790 red-top1792 finetop1824 kangaroo-grass1827 gamagrass1831 sweet vernal grass1839 yellow-top1839 grama1844 sesame grass1845 sacate1848 Para grass1850 Hungarian1859 alfilaria1860 sacaton1865 Mitchell grass1867 teosinte1877 Landsborough grass1883 turnip-grass1889 brown top1891 ichu1891 manna1897 Rhodes grass1903 Sudan1911 Kikuyu grass1913 never-fail1923 buffel grass1955 1865 Harper's Mag. Jan. 147/1 The grass consists of three principal varieties; the sacatone, a coarse, thick, and strong variety, growing in bunches; the mesquit..and the grama. 1886 Outing Dec. 223/2 We came upon a caved-in well, a wide hollow with a black bottom, covered with high rank grass, the Mexican zacaton. 1891 G. Vasey Illustr. N. Amer. Grasses (U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Bot.) I. i. (facing plate XXV) It [sc. Muhlenbergia distichophylla] is one of the grasses called saccato. 1891 G. Vasey Illustr. N. Amer. Grasses (U.S. Dept. Agric. Div. Bot.) I. i. (facing plate XXVII) This [sc. Epicampes macroura] is another of the grasses called saccato, or saccatone. 1929 J. W. Bews World's Grasses v. 201 Two species of the S.W. States are important forage grasses in the arid or semi-arid regions of Nebraska, Arizona, and Texas—S[porobolus] wrightii Munro, ‘Saccaton’, and S. airoides Torr., ‘Alkali Saccaton’ or ‘Alkali Drop-seed’. 1936 J. A. McKenna Black Range Tales 177 The Indians..crept from rock to rock; they crawled like snakes from one bunch of sacatone to another. 1942 E. F. Castetter & W. H. Bell Pima & Papago Indian Agric. 22 Along the edges and in the openings of the forests of these two drainages, sacaton grass (Sporobolus Wrightii) thrives. 1968 F. W. Gould Grass Systematics v. 265 Sporobolus airoides (Torr.) Torr., alkali sacaton, is a characteristic bunchgrass of alkaline areas in the western states. 1972 G. Durrell Catch me Colobus ix. 194 The zacaton grass..is tall—as much as three feet high—a very pale golden-yellow in colour, and it grows in huge tussocks all over the soft, black, volcanic soil. 1977 A. V. Bogdan Trop. Pasture & Fodder Plants 181 Panicum maximum Jacq. Guinea grass;..Zacaton (Mexico). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1865
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