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单词 goose-grass
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goose-grassn.

Forms: α. see goose n. and grass n.1 (β. 1500s–1700s goose-grease).
Etymology: < goose n. + grass n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgoose-grass.
The popular name of various plants, most of which are or were formerly used as food for geese.
1. Silver-weed ( Potentilla anserina).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > potentilla or cinquefoil
quinquefoileOE
five-leafc1000
goose-grassa1400
camorochec1440
five-leaved grass1526
tansyc1530
cinquefoil1538
potentilla1548
five-fingered grass1562
agrimony1578
silverweed1578
goose-tansy1597
silver grass1600
silverwort1611
five-finger-grass1640
midsummer silvera1697
strawberry cinquefoil1753
Scotch cinquefoil1789
goose-weed1865
five-finger1866
fair days1884
fair-grass1884
potentil1884
a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 41 Tanacetum album, gosegresse.
c1400 Med. Wks. 15th C. (1899) 99 Tak plaunteyn, gosgres, an[d] housleke.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 204/1 Gosys gres, or camoroche, or wylde tanzy.
1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Goosegras was sometime called Argentina.
1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 32 Goose grass, Goose tansie, Argentina.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 240 Goose grass or Wild Tansie is a Weed that strong Clays are very subject to.
1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 71 Potentilla anserina,..Goose-grass.
2. Cleavers ( Galium aparine).Hence applied with distinctive epithet to other species of Galium, as in †downy-stalk goosegrass, ? some variety of G. scabrum (Withering Brit. Pl. 1796); yellow goosegrass, Our Lady's Bedstraw, G. verum (Britten & H., citing Rural Cycl.). Possibly quot. c1400 at sense 1) belongs to this sense.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > goose-grass or cleavers
cleaversc1000
hairifc1000
tongue-bleedc1450
goose-grass1530
goose-hairif1551
goose-share1578
clithers1597
goose-bill1597
philanthropos1597
love-man1598
rundles1601
rennet wort1688
catchweed1691
goose-tongue1738
sticking-grass1829
scratch-weed1855
turkey-grass1874
beggars'-lice1880
tongue-bleeder1905
α.
1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Apparine Goosgyrs.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. lxxiv. 538 Cliuer or Goosegrasse hath many smal square branches.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden clxxxvii. 292 It is called in English..Goosegrasse, Cleavers (or Clivers).
1779 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 425 The specimen of goose grass or cleavers that you enclos'd is the right sort.
1860 All Year Round 24 Mar. 508 The seeds of avens have one single hook, those of agrimony and goosegrass many.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. III. 153 (Goose-grass or Cleavers)..This plant is said to have its name from the fondness of that bird for its herbage.
β. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 226/2 Gose grece, an herbe.1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell (1600) i. 15 Likewise the iuice of cleuers, or goose grease.1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 35 Hariff and Catchweed; Goose-grease, Aparine.1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 5) Hariff and Catchweed, Goose Grease.
3. purple goose-grass n. Obsolete field madder or spurwort ( Sherardia arvensis).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Rubiaceae or Galiaceae (bedstraw, etc.) > [noun]
wild madderc1450
crudwort15..
Our Lady bedstraw1527
Our Lady's bedstraw1543
galion1548
maidenhair1548
purple goose-grass1548
cheese renning1578
crosswort1578
golden mugget1578
petty mugget1578
lady's bedstraw1585
maid's hair1597
cheese rennet1599
runnet1678
field madder1684
mugweed1690
rondeletia1739
Richardia1755
petty madder1760
madderlen1770
galium1785
Sherardia1785
joint-grass1790
mugwort1796
bluet1818
bedstraw1820
madderwort1845
hundredfold1853
honeywort1863
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. A.vijv Alyscon Plinij..had leaues lyke madder and purple floures, it maye be named in englishe purple goosgrafe [sic].
4. The wild grass Bromus mollis.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > goose-grass
haver grass1578
oat-grass1578
golden oat1716
brome1762
goose-corn1762
pearl grass1794
goose-grass1853
pearl1886
1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 217 Bromus mollis..Goose-grass: Bull-grass.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Goose-grass,..the brome grass, Bromus mollis.
5. U.S.
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a. ‘The door-weed, Polygonum aviculare’ ( Cent. Dict.).
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b. ‘Low spear-grass, Poa annua’ ( Stand. Dict.).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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