| 单词 | turtle-grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasturtle-grass turtle-grass n. name for two marine plants with long narrow grass-like leaves: (a) Thalassia testudinum, of the W. Indies, etc.; (b) the grass-wrack, Zostera marina. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > of unspecified or various types sea-grass1591 rockweed1599 sea-tree1601 zoster1601 float-ore1602 vraic1610 sea-wrack1611 spangle-wort1681 trunk-weed1730 turtle-grass1736 sea-pine1762 agar-agar1769 greenweed1820 bull-kelpc1929 agarophyte1944 1736 Dr. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1735–6 (Royal Soc.) 39 116 Alga marina, gramineo angustissimo folio... Turtle-Grass: It grows at the Bottom of the Sea in shallow Water. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 71 The small grassy leaf'd Alga, or Turtle-grass. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. vi. 209 Manatis..coming in..to browse on mangrove shoots and turtle-grass. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Thalassia testudinum, Manatee-grass, Turtle-grass. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Zostera marina, Bell~ware,..Grass Wrack.., Turtle-grass. < as lemmas |
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