单词 | grama |
释义 | gramagramman.1 A name for several low pasture grasses abundant in the western and south-western U.S., esp. Bouteloua oligostachya. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > grasses used for hay or pasture windlestrawc1000 red grass1582 spring grass1643 sweet-grass1709 herd-grass1747 Guinea grass1756 vernal grass1762 vernal1771 Paspalum1772 buffalo grass1784 Rhode Island bent1790 red-top1792 finetop1824 kangaroo-grass1827 gamagrass1831 sweet vernal grass1839 yellow-top1839 grama1844 sesame grass1845 sacate1848 Para grass1850 Hungarian1859 alfilaria1860 sacaton1865 Mitchell grass1867 teosinte1877 Landsborough grass1883 turnip-grass1889 brown top1891 ichu1891 manna1897 Rhodes grass1903 Sudan1911 Kikuyu grass1913 never-fail1923 buffel grass1955 1844 J. Gregg Commerce of Prairies I. 160 A highly nutritious grass called grama. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. xix. 238 Our horses refreshed themselves on the ‘grama’ that grew luxuriantly around. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1828 A. Wetmore Diary 28 July in U.S. Senate 22nd Congress 1st Sess. Doc. 90 (1832) 39 Our mules have been recently much benefitted by the gramme grass, the best pasturage between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. iv. 55 There the grama grass is longer and more luxuriant. 1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin xii. 230 The dry crowsfoot gramma grass that clothed the country. 1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin xiii. 249 The gramma-carpeted foot-hills and plateaux of the Sierra Madre. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). graman.2 A scale used in Indian music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > Indian scales raga1789 ragini1789 grama1807 jati1834 murchana1891 mela1957 1807 J. D. Paterson in Asiatick Researches 9 446 (title) On the Grámas or Musical Scales of the Hindus. 1807 J. D. Paterson in Asiatick Researches 9 457 The scale is denominated Gráma (literally village) because there is in it the assemblage of all the notes. 1891 C. R. Day Mus. & Mus. Instruments S. India ii. 15 The srutis are differently arranged in grâmas, or scales, three in number. 1913 E. Clements Introd. Study Indian Music i. 2 First came the Grâmas, which may be regarded as collections of notes definitely related to one another by musical intervals. 1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) IV. 456/2 Grâma means ‘village’ and thus ‘scale’ or ‘collection of notes’. 1968 Indian Music Jrnl. 5 49 The whole framework of grāma and its adjuncts was evolved on the basis of the actual musical practice that had crystallised as Jāti-s. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.11828n.21807 |
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