| 单词 | smooth-stalked meadow grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmooth-stalked meadow grass 2. Chiefly with distinguishing word: any of various grasses constituting the genus Poa, characterized by open panicles and spikelets commonly with 2–5 unawned florets, chiefly found in temperate and cool regions of the world (in the United States called bluegrass); spec. (more fully smooth-stalked meadow grass) a grass of meadows and pastures, P. pratensis, with smooth leaf sheaths (in the United States called Kentucky bluegrass). Also (with distinguishing word): any of various grasses of other genera formerly included in the genus Poa, esp. the sweet-grasses (genus Glyceria) and the saltmarsh grasses (genus Puccinellia).annual, reed, rough-stalked, etc., meadow grass: see the first element. 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 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 1 Common Medow grasse hath very small tufts of rootes. 1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 153 Gramen pratense paniculatum... The lesser Meadow-grass. 1724 J. J. Dillenius Ray's Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. (ed. 3) 409 Gramen pratense paniculatum medium... The greater or middlesort of Meadow-Grass. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 141 Poa..pratensis... Smooth stalked meadow-grass. Meadows, dry banks, and even on walls. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 146 Poa angustifolia nemoralis. Huds. Wood Meadow-grass. Woods and shady places. 1850 S. F. Cooper Rural Hours 124 The timothy is an imported grass; so is the meadow-grass considered as the best of all for pasture. 1872 J. T. B. Syme Sowerby's Eng. Bot. (ed. 3) XI. 98 Floating Meadow-Grass... In several parts of Germany this grass is cultivated for its seeds, which form the manna croup of the shops. 1903 W. S. Furneaux Sea Shore (1922) xvi. 396 The Sea Meadow Grass (Poa maritima) grows in salt marshes near the sea. 1905 E. A. U. Valentine Hecla Sandwith 255 The gale whipped the meadow-grass into leaping silver lines. 1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) ii. xvi. 322 For ordinary garden lawns, turf composed of indigenous Perennial Rye-grass, Crested Dog's-tail and the Meadow-grasses will serve very well. 1954 C. E. Hubbard Grasses 167 ‘Meadow Grass’ is widespread in the British Isles... It is often common in old meadows. 1968 V. S. Summerhayes Wild Orchids Brit. (ed. 2) iv. 96 Common grass-like plants in the fens are the tall sedge Cladium mariscus,..reed meadow grass (Glyceria maxima), [etc.]. 1994 Jrnl. Ecol. 82 31 Bergelson..studied competition between annual meadow grass Poa annua and the ephemeral Senecio vulgaris in the presence and absence of slugs. < as lemmas |
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