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ˈwater-grass
A name applied to various grasses and grass-like plants growing in the water; also dial. (Warw.) to ‘various species of Equisetum’ (Britten & Holland).
The application to the pond-weed (Potamogeton) in quot. 1585 may possibly be an error.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 134/1 Potamogeton, fontinalis,..pondweede or wotergrasse. 1597Gerarde Herbal i. x. 12 Gramen aquaticum. Water grasse, or as we may terme it, Water burre grasse. Ibid. xi. 13 The place and time in which they growe, differeth not from the other Water grasses. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 128 Our flote fescue is a water-grass, and cannot be made hay of, at least without being dragged from out of the water. 1848Schomburgk Hist. Barbados 585 Panicum spectabile..Scotch Grass. Water Grass. 1856Olmsted Slave States 69 Broad, silent pools, around the edges of which remained a skirt of ice, held there by bushes and long, broken water-grasses. 1875Melliss St. Helena 342 Juncus capensis, Thunb.—Spreading Water Grass, or Rush. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. vii, Blades of last year's water-grass, trembling in the quiet places.
¶b. Anglo-Irish perversion of water-cress.
1726C. Threlkeld Synopsis Stirp. Hibern., Nasturtium aquaticum supinum,..Water-cresses... It is called about the Street by the abusive Name of Water-grass. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss. |