| 单词 | common reedmace |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon reedmace Any plant of the genus Typha (family Typhaceae), which comprises herbaceous perennial marsh plants with tall erect stems, long strap-shaped leaves, and small unisexual flowers densely packed in a velvety brown cylindrical spike; esp. the north temperate plants T. latifolia (more fully common reedmace, great reedmace, greater reedmace), in which the male and female parts of the spike are contiguous (also called bulrush, cat's tail), and the narrower-leaved T. angustifolia (more fully lesser reedmace), in which the male and female parts of the spike are separated by a short distance of exposed stem. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > bulrush or club-rush bulrushc1440 holrushc1440 glagol1480 cat's tail1548 reedmace1548 Typha1548 sun's brow1567 marsh beetle1578 marsh pestle1578 mat-rush1578 pole rush1578 water torch1578 water cat's-tail1597 ditch-down1611 doda1661 club-rush1677 deer-hair1777 club-grass1787 draw-ling1795 raupo1823 tule1837 boulder1847 blackheads1850 cat-o'-nine-tails1858 flax-tail1861 bull-sedge1879 mace reed1901 totora1936 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.vij Typha groweth in fennes & water sydes among the reedes... It is called in englishe cattes tayle, or a Reedmace. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 159v It maye be also called rede mace, because boyes vse it in theyr handes in the stede of a mace. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Typhe, water-Torch, Cats~tayle, Reed Mace, Ditch Downe, the marsh beetle or pestle. 1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) i. 100 The number of Seeds produced at once in some one Plant; as for example Reed-mace..may amount to a Million. 1724 J. J. Dillenius Ray's Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Brit. (ed. 3) 436 Great Cats-tail or Reed-mace. 1771 J. R. Forster Catal. Plants N. Amer. in tr. J. B. Bossu Trav. Louisiana II. 57 Typha latifolia. Reed mace, or Cat's tail... In Virginia the poorer people eat it, and are very fond of it. ?1785 Earl of Bute Bot. Tables II. 222 Reed mace. Typha. 1. Great reed mace. T—latifolia. 1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 116 There was a considerable quantity of the down of reedmace, (Typha palustris). 1884 R. Jefferies Red Deer ix. 176 By the shore flourishes the tall reed-mace (so rarely distinguished from the lesser bulrush). 1885 Littell's Living Age 3 Oct. 62/2 In St. George's Fields, upon the ditchsides, tall cat's-tail typha, and the great reed-mace, and yellow water-flags flourished. 1903 Burlington Mag. Mar. 60/1 Many natural vegetable substances may be made to serve as tinder in an emergency, as..the down of the common reed-mace. 1967 S. Mackay Old Crow xxii. 111 A patch of reed mace that rasped when the wind rose separated these cottages from the one where Coral watched the eviction. 1979 Hydrobiol. Jrnl. 15 19 Lesser reedmace is most active physiologically during the period of intensive leaf formation. 1995 H. Dunmore Spell of Winter (1996) xxi. 257 The reedmace quivered stiffly in the shallow water at my side. 2000 Canoeist Apr. 30/1 Closer at hand, greater reedmace grows along the banks as the canal loops round the end of the M45. < as lemmas |
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