释义 |
melick /ˈmɛlɪk /nounA grass with purplish florets, occurring in temperate woodland.- Genus Melica, family Gramineae: many species.
The ground flora is dominated by dog's mercury, with sanicle, woodruff, wood melick and wild garlic....- The male fern and broad buckler fern are also common, with occasional tussocks of wood melick.
- Locally rare plants found here are wood cranes-bill, wood meadow grass, large bittercress and wood melick, with globeflower abundant on the islands on the River Carron.
Origin Late 18th century: from modern Latin melica, perhaps from Italian melica 'sorghum'. Rhymes angelic, archangelic, evangelic, melic, philatelic, psychedelic, relic |