单词 | festucaceous |
释义 | festucaceousadj.ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [adjective] > made of straw > resembling straw strawish1562 festucous1646 festucaceous1657 festuceous1658 strawy1668 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Aaa3 It [sc. cinquefoile] emitts from one root many, pedall, festucaceous [L. festucaceos] surcles. 2. Botany. Belonging to or characteristic of a (former) division of grasses comprising the fescues (genus Festuca and related genera). rare. Now historical. ΚΠ 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 32/2 Airochloa, a name given to certain festucaceous grasses, now generally referred to Kœleria. 1895 Trans. Linn. Soc.: Bot. 4 510 This..differs from it in possessing a truly Festucaceous inflorescence. 1973 R. H. Mohlenbrock Grasses 211 This subfamily [sc. Eragrostoideae] includes several festucaceous genera of Hitchcock and many genera of Hitchcock's tribe Chlorideae. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1657 |
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