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pascual, a. (and n.)|ˈpæskjuːəl|
Also 7 pascal.
[a. OF. pascual, pascuel, ad. med.L. pascuāl-is, f. pascu-um grazing: see -al1. Cf. med.L. pascuale n.]
Of or pertaining to pastures; growing in pastures; esp. describing plants growing in pasture or grassland. Also as n., a pascual plant.
1656Blount Glossogr., Pascal, feeding here, and there abroad, belonging to pasture. 1847H. C. Watson Cybele Britannica I. 65 The proposed series of terms runs thus:—1. Pratal... 2. Pascual.—Plants of pastures and grassy commons, where the herbage is usually less luxuriant than in the meadow⁓lands, [etc.]. Ibid. 67 The pratal plants are occasionally pascual plants, as Phleum pratense; the pascuals are in turn ericetals, as Prunella vulgaris. 1863J. G. Baker N. Yorks. Stud. 183 We may employ a series of adjectives such as sylvestral, pratal, pascual, ericetal [etc.]. 1883A. Fryer in Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & For. XXI. 375 No hard and fast line can be drawn between Pascual and Pratal plants. 1926G. C. Druce in J. J. Walker Nat. Hist. Oxf. Distr. 96 Carex tomentosa L., usually classed as a paludal, is a pascual in its only known Oxford locality near Burford. |