单词 | buffel |
释义 | buffeln.ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Bucephala > bucephala albeola (bufflehead) buffel duck1732 spirit duck1785 butterbox1806 butterballa1813 marionette1838 bufflehead1858 Scotchman1888 1732 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. v. Pl. 95 The Buffel's Head Duck. 1732 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. v. Pl. 95 The length and looseness of these Feathers make the Head appear bigger than it is, which seems to have given it the Name of Buffel's Head, that Animal's Head appearing very big by it's being covered with very thick long Hair. 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 559 (heading) Pied and buffel duck. 1831 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. IV. 351 Red headed buffel duck. 2. buffel grass n. [Dutch buffel gras] = buffalo grass n. (b) at buffalo n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ 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 1915 R. Marloth Flora S. Afr. IV. 22 Buffelgras.] 1955 J. Cleary Justin Bayard xii. 182 Between the patch of buffel grass and the grey-blue slate was a small strip of fine sand. 1958 Austral. Encycl. IV. 126/1 Introduced species [of]..fodder plants..from Africa, veldt..buffel (Cenchrus ciliaris)..grasses. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1732 |
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