单词 | giant reed |
释义 | > as lemmasgiant reed a. Any of the grasses constituting the genera Phragmites and Arundo, which grow in water or marshy ground, often in large stands, and are characterized by tall stiff stems, large leaves, and plume-like inflorescences; esp. (more fully common reed) the cosmopolitan species Phragmites australis, and (more fully giant reed, great reed, etc.) the taller Arundo donax, native to the Mediterranean region but widely naturalized elsewhere. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > reed or the reed plant reedeOE spirea1425 pole-reed1578 pool reed1587 reed-grass1597 marsh-reed1797 flag-reed1833 Phragmites1840 toi-toi1843 fox's foot1853 spire reed1863 trumpet reed1866 bango1899 kamish1902 Norfolk reed1952 eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 62/1 Harundo, canna, hreod. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Luke vii. 24 Quid existis in desertum uidere harundinem uento moueri?: ymb huæd uel forhuon foerdon gie on woestern gesea hread uel gerd from wind gecerred? a1200 ( Laud Plant Gloss. 31 Canna .i. calamus. uel reod. a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 556/42 (MED) Arundo, i. rosel, i. reod. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. xix. 6 Þe reed [L. Calamus] & þe resshe shal welewyn. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 214 A Reeod hatte arundo and is mene bitwene a tree and an herbe..and is smoþe wiþoute and holough wiþinne. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 426 Reed, of the fenne, Arundo, canna. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 711/32 Arundo, a red. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. B.iij Arundo is called..in englishe a reed,..it groweth in water sydes, & in fennes, & such other watery places. 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) i. xxx. 37 The Cypresse Reed is a great Reed hauing stalkes exceeding long, sometimes twenty or thirty foot high,..set with very great leaues like those of Turkey wheat. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 57/2 The Reed is between an Herb and a Tree. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xiii. 148 The woollyness of the flowers in the Reed, will shew you this genus, as soon as it unfolds its panicle. 1793 J. E. Smith Sketch Tour on Continent I. 215 Here the great reed, Arundo Donax, grows abundantly, and looks magnificent, reminding one of the bamboos on Indian and Chinese papers. 1804 J. Barrow Trav. China x. 493 Their chief support in the summer is derived from the strong grasses that grow in the ditches and the common reed, with which..large tracts of swampy ground are covered. 1912 E. D. Sanderson Insect Pests 177 When the rush becomes too hard for the beetles they often attack a common reed. 1917 Jrnl. Heredity 8 471/1 It is sometimes called the giant reed, and is often erroneously mistaken for the bamboo. 1981 H. Mitchell Essent. Earthman (1983) xviii. 183 The great reed or ditch grass, Arundo donax, looks much like field corn, except it is more graceful and reaches twelve feet in height. 2000 A. M. T. Moore et al. Village on Euphrates iii. 71 These [swamps] can reasonably be expected to support extensive stands of..the common reed. < as lemmas |
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