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单词 tall oat grass
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tall oat grass
1. Any of numerous grasses related to the cultivated oat ( Avena sativa) or thought to resemble it, including members of the genera Avena, Arrhenatherum, and Helictotrichon (or Avenula); esp. (in full tall oat grass, false oat grass) Arrhenatherum elatius, a tall grass of hedges, rough grassland, etc., native to western Eurasia and naturalized in North America. Frequently with distinguishing word.meadow oatgrass: see meadow n. Compounds 3.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xlvi. 505 Bycause of the likenesse it hath with Otes..we may call it in Englishe, Hauer, or Ote grasse.
1724 J. J. Dillenius Ray's Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. (ed. 3) 413 Festuca Avenacea hirsuta, paniculis minus sparsis... Rough Oat-grass with more compact panicles.
1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 105 [Avena elatior] Tall Oat-Grass. Anglis.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xiii. 147 Bearded Oat-grass, vulgarly called Wild Oats.
1795 W. Winterbotham Hist. Rec. III. 401 The States of New-England abound with..Millet,..Fescue grass,..Oat grass.
1832 Ld. Tennyson New Year's Eve vii, in Poems (new ed.) 98 The summer airs blow cool, On the oatgrass and the swordgrass, and the bulrush in the pool.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 93/2 The tall Oat-grass, A[rrhenatherum] avenaceum..in many instances forms a very considerable portion of good meadows and pastures.
1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) x. 182 Tall or False Oat-grass is indigenous to the whole of Europe and western Asia except the extreme north, and has been introduced into North America where it is sometimes known as Meadow Oat-grass.
1993 Wildlife News (Berks., Bucks. & Oxon Naturalists' Trust) 11/1 At least 16 species [of grass] including upright brome,..downy oat-grass and quaking-grass alongside field woodrush and glaucous sedge.
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