单词 | silver grass |
释义 | silver grassn. One or other of various species of grass, esp.: (a) the striped or ribbon-grass; (b) the Australasian grasses Danthonia pallida, and Poa cæspitosa; (c) dialect the silverweed. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > meadow grass meadow grass1597 silver grass1600 lovegrass1702 spear-grass1747 bluegrass1751 wiregrass1751 poa1753 poa grass1759 Suffolk grass1759 fowl-meadow-grass1774 penguin grass1776 mead grass1778 June grass1840 weeping Polly1880 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > phalaris grasses grass corn1548 phalaris1548 Canary seed1578 Canary grass1597 chameleon grass1597 lady's laces1597 painted grass1597 sword-grass1598 silver grass1600 Canary1723 reed canary grass1762 ribbon grass1786 gardener's garters1820 dagger-grass1834 daggers1847 bride's laces1854 canary reed1884 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > potentilla or cinquefoil quinquefoileOE five-leafc1000 goose-grassa1400 camorochec1440 five-leaved grass1526 tansyc1530 cinquefoil1538 potentilla1548 five-fingered grass1562 agrimony1578 silverweed1578 goose-tansy1597 silver grass1600 silverwort1611 five-finger-grass1640 midsummer silvera1697 strawberry cinquefoil1753 Scotch cinquefoil1789 goose-weed1865 five-finger1866 fair days1884 fair-grass1884 potentil1884 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > Australian grasses silver grass1600 buffalo grass1784 cane grass1827 porcupine grass1842 tussock-grass1842 spinifex1846 spear-grass1847 rice grass1848 sugar-grass1862 blue star grass1876 wiregrass1883 windmill-grass1889 danthonia1918 Wimmera rye-grass1920 niggerhead1923 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xlii. 261 Siluer-grasse (so called because the leaues doe resemble siluer on the backeside) doth delight in a moist and grassie ground. 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) i. 18 Round headed Siluer-grasse... At the top of the stalks..there grow two or three round heads consisting of soft and white downie threds. 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) i. 18 The heade of this (which I haue thought good to call Siluer-grasse). 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 234 Silver-grass, striped grass; common in gardens. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 82 Danthonia pallida,..Silver Grass. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. 144 Silver-fern or Silver-grass, Potentilla Anserina. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmassilver grass Some other names of this type, as silver feather, silver grass, silver hair-grass, silver lavender, are current in dialect or local use.extracted from silvern.adj.< as lemmas |
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