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单词 sea mat-grass
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sea mat-grass
mat-grass n. any of several grasses having a matlike growth or used for matting; esp. (a) a wiry, densely tufted grass, Nardus stricta, often dominating acid heaths and moorland in Europe and temperate Asia (also moor mat-grass); (b) (more fully sea mat-grass) marram grass, Ammophila arenaria.
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1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 90 [Nardus stricta] Mat-Grass. Anglis. On moors and heaths frequent.
1789 J. Pilkington View Derbyshire I. viii. 331 Nardus stricta, Matgrass... This grass is stiff and hard to the touch.
1818 C. I. La Trobe Jrnl. Visit S. Afr. 372 A peculiar kind of grass [in St Helena], called mat-grass, from its spreading..over the ground in such thickness, that it forms a cover resembling thick matting.
1840 J. Paxton Pocket Bot. Dict. Sea matgrass, Psamma arenaria.
1881 D. L. Phares Farmer's Bk. Grasses 39 C[alamagrostis] arenaria, mat grass... Much property has been saved by a judicious planting of this grass in the eastern States.
1911 C. E. Moss in A. G. Tansley Types Brit. Vegetation v. 132 The most abundant and characteristic grass of the drier siliceous grassland is the mat-grass (Nardus stricta).
1988 W. Horwood Duncton Quest iii. 39 Insidiously, like the spread of rotten root disease beneath a raft of mat-grass.
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