| 单词 | elephant grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselephant grass elephant grass n. (also elephant's-grass) any of various kinds of grass or grasslike plants, esp. Pennisetum purpureum ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > names applied to various types of grass windlestrawc1000 shear-grass1483 risp1508 sweet-grass1577 star grass1687 reesk1735 bluegrass1751 cheat1784 spear-grass1784 white top1803 prairie grass1812 elephant grass1832 ryegrass1845 wool-grass1854 snow-grass1865 quick1896 1832 W. Roxburgh et al. Flora Indica (new ed.) III. 566 Elephant grass... Elephants are fond of it. 1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales 15 We marched two and two,..glancing askance at every bush, at every big tuft of elephant grass. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 2/1 Long grass in Uganda, ‘elephant grass’, grows from fifteen feet to twenty feet high. 1968 J. W. Purseglove Trop. Crops II. 472 Elephant grass. Pennisetum purpureum Schum., is the common mulch. < as lemmas |
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