单词 | cocksfoot grass |
释义 | > as lemmascocksfoot grass 2. More fully cocksfoot grass. Any of several grasses typically having inflorescences thought to resemble the foot of a cock; esp. Dactylis glomerata, a pasture grass native to Eurasia and northern Africa and naturalized in North America, Australia, and New Zealand where it is occasionally regarded as an invasive weed. Also with distinguishing word. In quot. 1597: probably Digitaria sanguinalis; cf. cocksfoot finger grass n. at Compounds.Cf. rough cock's-foot n. at rough adj. Compounds 5c(b). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > grasses used for hay or pasture > cock's foot cocksfoot1597 orchard grass1764 fox's foot1853 small seed1950 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 25 (caption) Ischæmon vulgare. Cocks-foote grasse. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum xiii. xxv. 1180 The Egyptian Cocks foote..is used by the Egyptian women to helpe to breake the stone, eyther in the reines or bladder. 1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 397 These are six Hairy spiked Cocks-foot-Grasses. 1796 W. Strickland Let. 20 May in T. Jefferson Papers (2002) XXIX. 104 I saw a single instance of the Meadow cocksfoot-grass (Dactylis gromerata) one of our four best meadow grasses. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 228 The seed of cock's-foot is light and the culms are comparatively succulent at this period of growth. 1850 Jrnl. N.-Y. State Agric. Soc. Sept. 41/1 A proximate organic analysis has also been made of the Panicum Crusgalli, or Cocksfoot grass, with the view of finding out whether it was well calculated (if well cured) to make a nutritious fodder. 1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm vi. 47 On infertile soils where drought is a danger, cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata) is a better grass. 1999 P. D. Kemp et al. in J. White & J. Hodgson N.Z. Pasture & Crop Sci. vii. 91/1 Cocksfoot grows better in the shade under trees than most other pasture grasses. 2016 Times (Nexis) 24 June 33 A very different-looking grass, seen in all kinds of waste places, is cocksfoot grass... At the top it has several purplish lumps on thin stalks that are supposed to look like a bird's foot, though this is not at all evident. < as lemmas |
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