| 单词 | wire-weed |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswire-weed b. In the names of plants with slender wiry stems, as †wire bent, wire-weed. See also wiregrass n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > mat-grass white bent1620 wire bent1756 mat-grass1777 nardus1777 nard1866 small matweed1866 the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > knot-grass swine's grasslOE bird's-tonguea1300 sparrow's-tonguea1400 corrigiolec1400 swinecress?a1425 knot-grass1538 way-grass1565 centinode1611 pinkweed1657 breadwort1736 stone-weed1847 allseed1855 knotwort1864 wire-weed1864 willow weed1866 knotweed1884 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 126 The small Wire-rush... The larger Wire-rush. Both these little plants are very frequent in the swamps of Jamaica. 1797 J. Bailey & G. Culley Gen. View Agric. Northumberland 127 Nardus stricta. Wirebent. 1808 J. Walker Econ. Hist. Hebrides II. 87 The Wire bent is so called, because the flower stalks very much resemble, in shape and size, a stocking wire. 1864 Times 27 Dec. 9/4 The whole field was overspread with a luxuriant growth of the knot-grass or wire-weed, a plant that springs up..wherever the soil is disturbed. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 157/2 Wirerush, the hard rush. 1961 W. Martin Flora N.Z. (ed. 4) 5 A little lower down where the seaweeds are permanently submerged we have such plants as the Grapelet, the Wire-Weed, and Ox-tongue. 2003 High Country News 9 June 7/1 In the kipukas we discovered dainty, fragrant wildflowers: wire lettuce and scorpionweed, wild onion and seabland penstemon. < as lemmas |
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