单词 | crab-grass |
释义 | crab-grassn. 1. The Glasswort, Salicornia herbacea, a marine plant common in salt marshes. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in paper, glass, or pottery manufacture > [noun] > glassworts sea-grape1578 crab-grass1597 glasswort1597 marsh samphire1670 kelp1712 crab-weed1790 jume18.. sea-grass1839 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 429 The herbe is also called..Kali articulatum, or iointed Glassewoort..in English Crab Grasse, and Frog grasse. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 285 Glasswort is sometimes called..Crab-grass. 2. The Knot-grass. (Britten and Holland.) 3. In U.S. A species of grass, Panicum sanguinale; also other allied species. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > panic grasses panic?1440 summer grass1531 panicle1577 manna-grass1597 panic grass1597 panicum1739 crab-grass1743 witchgrass1790 old-witch grass1859 vine-bamboo1871 Vandyke1889 1743 J. F. Gronovius Flora Virginica II. 134 Panicum spicis alternis oppositisve [etc.]..Crab-grass. 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia 69 Our grasses are Lucerne,..greenswerd, blue grass, and crab grass. 1833 B. Silliman Man. Sugar Cane 13 The Crab Grass (Digitaria sanguinalis) which comes up abundantly on new land, is cut up with hoes. 1857 F. L. Olmsted Journey through Texas (1861) 140 The crops..contrasted favorably with the patches of corn-stubble, overgrown with crab-grass. 1881 G. W. Cable Mme. Delphine viii. 45 In its old walks..crab-grass had spread. 1885 Harper's Mag. Dec. 133 A field in which crab-grass had grown in the place of the harvested wheat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1597 |
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