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单词 festucous
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festucousadj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin festūca , -ous suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin festūca stalk, straw (of unknown origin; the suffix -ūca , -ūcus is found in several plant names, e.g. sambūcus elder tree; compare sambuca n.2) + -ous suffix. Compare festucine adj.
Obsolete.
1. Of the nature of or resembling (a) straw; straw-like. rare after 17th cent.
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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.
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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).
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