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单词 hair-grass
释义 ˈhair-grass
[After L. generic name Aira, with reference to the slender hair-like branches.]
A name for grasses of the Linnæan genus Aira.
1759B. Stillingfl. On Grasses Misc. Tracts (1762) 371 To give such [names] as..approach as near as possible to the Latin names in sound where they could not be interpreted..Thus I have called the aira hair-grass, the bromus brome-grass, etc.1798Trans. Soc. Arts XVI. 123 The grass it now produces (chiefly the aira or hair grass) is so hard and wiry.1866Treas. Bot. s.v. Aira, The tufted Hair-grass..is one of the tallest-growing British grasses.
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