| 单词 | tussock-grassland |
| 释义 | > as lemmastussock-grassland 1. One or other of several grasses of the Southern Hemisphere; esp. (a) Poa flabellata (formerly Dactylis cæspitosa), a tall-growing valuable grass of the Falkland Islands and Patagonia; (b) Lomandra longifolia of Australia (N.O. Juncaceæ); (c) various New Zealand species of Arundo and Poa. Frequently in combinations, as tussock-grassland. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > names applied to various non-British grasses wiregrass1751 tussock1832 tussock-grass1842 miscanthus1882 the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > Australian grasses silver grass1600 buffalo grass1784 cane grass1827 porcupine grass1842 tussock-grass1842 spinifex1846 spear-grass1847 rice grass1848 sugar-grass1862 blue star grass1876 wiregrass1883 windmill-grass1889 danthonia1918 Wimmera rye-grass1920 niggerhead1923 1842 Guernsey Star Sept. The splendid Tussack Grass is the..glory of the Falkland Islands. Every animal there feeds upon it..and fattens in a short time... The blades are about six foot long, and from 200 to 300 shoots spring from one plant. 1845 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom (1846) 113 Attention has lately been directed to the Tussac-grass of the Falklands, Festuca flabellata, a species forming tufts 5 or 6 feet high. 1848 J. White Jrnl. 13 Mar. 266 (MS.) The top [of the house] is of the nikau leaf and tussock grass. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 550 Tussac or Tussock [Grass], Dactylis cæspitosa. 1867 J. T. Thomson Rambles with Philosopher v. 25 The natural tussock-grass lands..stretched beyond the narrow precincts of incipient colonization. 1878 J. Buller Forty Years N.Z. i. Introd. 9 It is generally..covered with either forest, tall fern or tussock-grass. 1880 J. Buchanan Indig. Grasses N.Z. Tab. xxvii & xxviii Arundo conspicua..A. fulvida, plumed tussac grass. 1884 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Old Melbourne Mem. v. 38 The roof was neatly thatched with the tall, strong tussock-grass. 1906 T. F. Cheeseman Man. N.Z. Flora 908 Poa caespitosa, Tussock grass. 1959 A. H. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. p. xiv Some pockets of beech forest still survive..along with a depleted tussock grassland. < as lemmas |
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