单词 | sea-grass |
释义 | sea-grassn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1887 R. Abercromby Weather 98. 4. attributive. ΚΠ 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). < n.1578 |
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