单词 | coco-grass |
释义 | > as lemmascoco-grass coco-grass n. U.S. regional (chiefly southern) any of several tall sedges; esp. nut grass, Cyperus rotundus, native to Africa and parts of (chiefly southern) Europe and Asia, now widespread elsewhere as an invasive weed, and (less commonly) Scirpus robustus, a wetland sedge native to North America. ΚΠ 1837 in J. R. Commons et al. Doc. Hist. Amer. Industr. Soc. (1910) I. 221 Cutting coco grass on the 22d. 1902 W. S. Gordon Recoll. Old Quarter 111 The floods, the irrepressible cocoa-grass, the poisonous vegetable exhalations are in his way. 1992 W. T. Parsons & E. G. Cuthbertson Noxious Weeds Austral. 57 Nutgrass... Cyperus rotundus... Alternative names: coco grass, dila, motha (all India), nut sedge, purple nut grass (California), purple nutsedge (USA), [etc.]. 2011 R. Mabey Weeds (U.S. ed.) i. 18 The bulk of the remainder are aggressive grasses from the tropics, including..coco grass at number one, officially recognised as ‘the world's worst weed’. < as lemmas |
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