单词 | sweet-grass |
释义 | sweet-grassn. a. Any kind of grass (or herb called ‘grass’) of a sweet taste serving as fodder; spec. a book-name for the genus Glyceria; also locally, the woodruff, Asperula odorata, and the grass-wrack, Zostera marina (Britten & Holland). Also applied to a species of Heracleum: see quot. 1784. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > names applied to various types of grass windlestrawc1000 shear-grass1483 risp1508 sweet-grass1577 star grass1687 reesk1735 bluegrass1751 cheat1784 spear-grass1784 white top1803 prairie grass1812 elephant grass1832 ryegrass1845 wool-grass1854 snow-grass1865 quick1896 the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > grass-wrack sweet-grass1577 grass wrack1633 grass weed1658 eel-grass1790 zostera1819 sea-wrack grass1836 sea-grass1857–8 wigeon grass1857 wigeon weed1893 zos-grass1937 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > manna-grass and allies sweet-grass1577 manna-grass1759 glyceria1836 sea spear-grass1856 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > grasses used for hay or pasture windlestrawc1000 red grass1582 spring grass1643 sweet-grass1709 herd-grass1747 Guinea grass1756 vernal grass1762 vernal1771 Paspalum1772 buffalo grass1784 Rhode Island bent1790 red-top1792 finetop1824 kangaroo-grass1827 gamagrass1831 sweet vernal grass1839 yellow-top1839 grama1844 sesame grass1845 sacate1848 Para grass1850 Hungarian1859 alfilaria1860 sacaton1865 Mitchell grass1867 teosinte1877 Landsborough grass1883 turnip-grass1889 brown top1891 ichu1891 manna1897 Rhodes grass1903 Sudan1911 Kikuyu grass1913 never-fail1923 buffel grass1955 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 45 The best hearbe for Pasture or Meddowe, is the Trefoyle or Clauer: the next is sweete Grasse. 1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland iii. 20 Bituminous Peat Earth..when burnt, limed, and manured..will produce a new Set of sweet Grass, as Clover, both white and red. 1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. vi. vi. 336 The other plant alluded to is called the sweet grass; the botanical description is Heracleum Sibericum foliis pinnatis [etc.]..In May..it was..covered with a white down, or dust,..it tasted as sweet as sugar; but was hot and pungent. 1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 109 The ‘Reed Sweet grass,’ ‘Floating sweet grass’. b. South African. = sweet-veld n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > herb or herbaceous plant > [noun] > herbage or grass > forming characteristic vegetation meadow grassa1300 bottom grass1594 long grass1699 sweet-grass1812 short-grass1826 prairie wool1908 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture leasowc950 leasea1000 pasturea1300 common pasturea1325 grassland1324 laund1340 lea1357 gang1413 feedingc1430 grassa1500 raika1500 beast-gate1507 pasturagec1515 grazing1517 average1537 pasture groundc1537 walk1549 grassing1557 pastural1575 browsing1577 feed1580 pastureland1591 meadow pasture1614 green side1616 range1626 pastorage1628 tore1707 graziery1731 pasturing1759 permanent pasture1771 sweet-veld1785 walk land1797 run1804 sweet-grass1812 potrero1822 pasturage land1855 turn-out1895 lawn1899 1812 A. Plumptre tr. H. Lichtenstein Trav. S. Afr. I. ii. xv. 204 On the high hills, sweet grass grows in tolerable plenty. 1838 W. B. Boyce Notes S. Afr. Affairs 186 Men should be sent from..the sweet-grass and karoo farms. 1897 S. J. Du Toit Rhodesia iv. 32 Various kinds of sweet-grass and small shrubs, varied with very good large bush and trees, as..‘noem noem’, ‘quarri’, [etc.]. 1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms Sweet grass, the food plants growing on rich alluvial soil. c. North American. One of several scented grasses, esp. Hierochloë odorata, used in basket-making. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > other textiles obtained from plants > [noun] > for basket making twigc1440 rotan1662 sweet-grass1926 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [adjective] > of or relating to other fibre or thatch-yielding plants kapok1735 sea-island1834 kie-kie1847 yedda1918 sweet-grass1926 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > grasses > other grasses sirki1801 vetiver1831 wiwi1840 khus khus1851 pili1854 yedda1918 sweet-grass1973 1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 24 Jan. 20/1 From making sweet-grass baskets on the shores of the lake of Bays to singing before royalty in the Albert Hall is a far cry. 1968 E. R. Buckler Ox Bells & Fireflies xv. 227 Her contentment grows as the sweet-grass basket fills. 1973 A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 43 Sweet grass is widely used in coils. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1577 |
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