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单词 bluestem wheat
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bluestem wheat
bluestem n. U.S. any of various grasses with bluish-green stems; esp. (a) a variety of wheat (frequently attributive, esp. in bluestem wheat); (b) (more fully bluestem grass) any of several prairie grasses, esp. Schizachyrium scoparium (= little bluestem n. at little adj., pron., n., and adv. Compounds 1c) and species of the genus Andropogon.
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1818 Mem. Philadelphia Soc. for promoting Agric. 4 126 I determined to change my seed, disposing of every bushel, and purchased one hundred bushels of what is known here by the blue stem wheat.
1851 New Eng. Farmer 30 Aug. 281/1 The Blue Stem is undoubtedly the best winter wheat for New England.
1855 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1854: Agric. 190 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (33rd Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 59, Pt. 3) VII On bottom lands, a sort of blue-stem grass grows, which yields 2 or more tons [of hay] an acre.
1889 Harper's Mag. Feb. 348/2 The beautiful carpet of natural grasses, buffalo, gramma, and blue stem.
1915 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 680. 13 The wheats of the bluestem group of the hard red spring wheats are all very similar in appearance.
1927 P. H. Pearson Prairie Vikings 24 The settlers found queer little oases of rank blue-stem showing up in marked contrast against the buffalo grass.
2006 G. E. Watson Big Thicket Plant Ecol. (ed. 3) ii. 22 Pine tree and the bluestem grasses (Andropogon spp.) are the dominant plant species.
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