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单词 sea-grass
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sea-grassn.

Etymology: Compare German seegras, meergras.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-grass.
1. A grass which grows by the sea. Also one of various grass-like plants: (a) = sea-pink n. 1; (b) one of the glassworts, Salicornia herbacea; (c) the grass Spartina stricta.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > sea lavender and allied flowers
moly1578
Our Lady's cushion1578
sea-grass1578
thrift1592
marsh lavender1597
sea spike-grass1597
statice1601
sea-cushion1629
sea-gilliflower1629
sea-thrift1706
sea-pink1731
lavender thrift1760
sea lavender1760
marsh rosemary1777
sea-daisy1838
sea-beet1845
cushion-pink1863
sea-lavender1865
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > bent grass, rush, or sedge
sedgec1000
flaga1387
sniddlea1400
bentc1425
helm1640
marram1640
beach-grass1681
spreta1700
bent-grass1777
marsh grass1785
sea-grass1791
sedge-grass1847
sand grass1856
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > marsh grass
salt grass1704
marsh grass1785
spartina1836
sea cock's-foot-grass1837
sea-grass1837
broom-sedge1856
cord-grass1861
rice grass1907
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in paper, glass, or pottery manufacture > [noun] > glassworts
sea-grape1578
crab-grass1597
glasswort1597
marsh samphire1670
kelp1712
crab-weed1790
jume18..
sea-grass1839
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. l. 509 Sea grasse... Some call it in Englishe our Ladies quishion.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 318 In English, Thrift, Sea grasse, and our Ladies Cushion.
1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery II. 158 Its banks..are covered, like the other mud-lands of this country, with sea~grass, which gives them the air of meadows when the tide retires.
1837 W. Baxter Brit. Phænogamous Bot. III. 203 Spartina stricta. Twin-spiked Cord-grass. Smooth Sea-grass. Sea Cock's-foot-grass.
1839 W. Baxter Brit. Phænogamous Bot. IV. 307 Salicornia herbacea... Sea-grass... Sea-grape.
2. One of various plants and seaweeds growing in the sea: (a) a pondweed, Ruppia maritima; (b) the eel-grass or grass-wrack, Zostera marina; also, the dried stems of this plant, used in ropes, chair-seats, etc.; (c) the gulf-weed; (d) the Enteromorpha compressa.
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > of unspecified or various types
sea-grass1591
rockweed1599
sea-tree1601
zoster1601
float-ore1602
vraic1610
sea-wrack1611
spangle-wort1681
trunk-weed1730
turtle-grass1736
sea-pine1762
agar-agar1769
greenweed1820
bull-kelpc1929
agarophyte1944
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > sea grasses
sea-grass1762
tassel-grass1810
the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > grass-wrack
sweet-grass1577
grass wrack1633
grass weed1658
eel-grass1790
zostera1819
sea-wrack grass1836
sea-grass1857–8
wigeon grass1857
wigeon weed1893
zos-grass1937
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Ova Reeke, sea grasse, ducke weede, Vlua, alga, lens palustris.
1608 B. Jonson Characters Two Royall Masques i. sig. A4 Oceanvs..was gyrlonded with Alga, or sea~grasse.
1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 63 Ruppia maritima... Sea-grass.
1857–8 H. W. Longfellow Miles Standish iv. 12 Welcome, O wind of the East..Blowing o'er fields of dulse, and measureless meadows of sea-grass.
1883 E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes New S. Wales (Fish. Exhib. Catal.) 48 The food of the Dugong consists of sea-grasses, chiefly a species of Zostera.
1900 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 12 Jan. 170/1 Sea grass is a long thin grass that grows on the protected flats of the Lower St. Lawrence River.
1900 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 12 Jan. 170/1 (heading) Canadian sea grass for upholstering.
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 25 Apr. 6/7 (advt.) Porch and Verandah Chairs. There are no chairs more suitable for the porch or verandah than Sea Grass or Rattan.
1933 P. T. Tucker Riding High Country ii. 31 His las' rope was sea grass.
1979 Dictionaries 1 64 Sea grass is..a derived product with a local name.
3. A variety of cirrus cloud.
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1887 R. Abercromby Weather 98.
4. attributive.
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1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 2 Aug. Ligatures of seagrass twine—which cut like razors.
1895 Outing 26 356/1 Off speeds the bass with an hundred foot pennon of sea-grass line trailing from his bloody jaws.
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 11 Apr. 7/1 (advt.) Special sale of sea grass chairs.
1967 Southerly 27 152 Immemorial deck-chairs and seagrass tables.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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