| 单词 | bottlebrush grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbottlebrush grass a. In full bottlebrush grass. A tall perennial grass of eastern North America, Elymus hystrix, with a bristly cylindrical seed head. In later use also: a grass of tropical and southern Africa, Anthephora pubescens. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > American or West Indian man-grass1672 Scotch grass1707 ginger-grass1750 savannah grass1750 bottlebrush1798 rescue grass1853 ant rice1861 1798 A. Spotswood Let. 24 Nov. in G. Washington Papers (1999) Retirement Ser. III. 219 I have cut and cured a large stock of the bottle brush grass. 1843 J. Torrey Flora State N.Y. II. 478 Bottle-brush Grass... Moist, rocky woods, and along shady ravines: not rare. 1897 F. Lamson-Scribner Amer. Grasses (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 320 Bottle Brush.—A smooth, cæspitose perennial 6 to 12 dm. high, with rather broad flat leaves and terminal spikes 6 to 12 cm. long. 2006 U. Quattrocchi CRC World Dict. Grasses I. 139/1 A[nthephora] pubescens... In English: bottle brush grass, cat's tail grass, wool grass. 2014 J. L. Lowry Calif. Foraging 88/2 Consider adopting a patch of bottlebrush grass. < as lemmas |
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