| 单词 | ant rice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasant rice ant rice n. U.S. the prairie three-awn grass, Aristida oligantha, of North America, the growth of which, in Texas, is favoured by the red harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > American or West Indian man-grass1672 Scotch grass1707 ginger-grass1750 savannah grass1750 bottlebrush1798 rescue grass1853 ant rice1861 1861 Zoologist 19 7574 The cities were invariably planted at the proper season with ant rice. 1879 J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. iv. 109 A Texan ant..is also a harvesting species, storing up especially the grains of Aristida oligantha, the so-called ‘ant rice’. 1954 F. C. Lane All about Insect World 95 These ants erect a mound of earth several feet high. Beneath it they dig extensive chambers. All surrounding vegetation is cleared away except their chief food, ant rice. < as lemmas |
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