单词 | sour veld |
释义 | > as lemmassour veld sour veld n. (also sour veldt) South African grassland covered with coarse grass lacking nutritive value. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > grassland > types of links1487 sward1513 machair1692 scurf1708 sweet-veld1785 stone-turf1797 sour veld1801 undergrass1838 bent-land1883 undersward1883 turf-line1935 1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. iii. 110 That division of the district called the Zuure-veldt, or Sour Grass plains. 1863 J. S. Dobie Jrnl. 6 Apr. in S. Afr. Jrnl. (1945) 76 On across the Little Tugela..over rank sour-veldt grass. 1894 T. R. Sim Flora of Kaffraria 14 The sour veld..is composed of rank strong growing grasses. 1948 Star (Johannesburg) 20 Oct. 3/7 Sourveld management presents formidable problems. 1978 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 19 479 Seasonal loss of nutrition of the plateau grasses (i.e. the presence of sourveld). < as lemmas |
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