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单词 cut-grass
释义 cut-grass
[f. cut v. 65: lit. ‘grass that cuts’.]
A genus of grasses, Leersia, esp. the species L. oryzoides, the range of which extends as far north as the south of England.
1840Bigelow Flora (Bartlett Dict. Amer.), Cut-grass..a species of grass, with leaves exceedingly rough backward, so as to cut the hands if drawn across them.1849W. A. Bromfield in Phytologist III. 683 Cut-grass..[is] remarkable for..extreme asperity, which even makes some precaution requisite to avoid cutting the hand, an accident that is said to befal the women employed in weeding it out of the rice-fields in Lombardy.
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