单词 | festucous |
释义 | † festucousadj. Obsolete. 1. Of the nature of or resembling (a) straw; straw-like. rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [adjective] > made of straw > resembling straw strawish1562 festucous1646 festucaceous1657 festuceous1658 strawy1668 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. iv. 81 If we speake of strawes or festucous divisions lightly drawen over with oyle. View more context for this quotation 1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes (new ed.) 77 The phansy of Amber delights to allect strawes, chaffe, and other festucous bodies [L. paleas ac festucas]. 1907 National Mag. Sept. 720/1 ‘The flaccid droop of that straw bonnet is really pathetic. Consign it to the tomb, dear boy, and I'll write an ode to its illustrious progenitor. How's this: “Oh, thou festucous cow food! Thou multiparous hay stack—”’. 2. Of or relating to a soft stalk or shoot of a plant. rare.Recorded only in dictionaries. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > stem or stalk > [adjective] festucous1656 cauline1757 caulinar1851 scapiform1857 caulomic1880 medullate1896 medullated1901 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Festucous, belonging to a young tender sprig or stalk of a tree or herb from the root upward. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021). < adj.1646 |
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