| 单词 | sea matgrass |
| 释义 | > as lemmassea 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > mat-grass white bent1620 wire bent1756 mat-grass1777 nardus1777 nard1866 small matweed1866 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. sea matgrass sea matgrass n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > sea bent or sea reed grass sea-reedc1550 sea-bent1562 sea matweed1597 sea reed-grass1777 sand-reed1805 bent-star1822 sea matgrass1840 sand-sedge1842 sand-oat1881 1840 J. Paxton Pocket Bot. Dict. Sea matgrass, Psamma arenaria. < as lemmas |
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