释义 |
ˈrush-like, a. [f. rush n.1] Resembling a rush or rushes.
1578Lyte Dodoens 642 Amongst the Rushlyke leaues growe smal rounde stemmes. 1610Niccols Englands Eliza xxvi, Ne yet did seeke their glorie to advance, By only tilting with a rush-like lance. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 55/2 The Spanish Silver-cupped Moly hath a Stalk proceeding from 2 or 3 rush like leaves. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Equisetum, The rush-like naked, or not branched Horsetail. 1833Penny Cycl. I. 187/1 The plains are permanently clothed with patches of a rush-like plant called Restio. 1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 105 Their profuse herbage of reeds and rush⁓like grass. |