单词 | haver grass |
释义 | haver grassn. Chiefly English regional (northern) and Scottish. Now rare. Any of various grasses related to the cultivated oat ( Avena sativa) or thought to resemble it. Cf. oat-grass n. 1. ΘΚΠ 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 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iv. xlvi. 505 Hauergrasse [Fr. Aueron] is..much like to Otes, in leaues, stemmes, and eares. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 67 Festuca Italica. Hauer Grasse. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1147 This Haver-Grasse hath divers Grasse-like leaves of a pale greene colour. 1714 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 35 Single spiked Havergrass. 1775 G. Motherby New Med. Dict. Ægylops Narbonensis, called also Festuca Italica, and Graman Festuca. Haver Grass. 1822 H. Phillips Hist. Cultivated Veg. (ed. 2) II. 6 Much haver-grass rose among the barley. 1879 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Haver- or Havver-Grass, the northern name for ‘oat-grass’. Bromus sterilis; Avena elatior; Bromus mollis. 1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land xiii. 209 Bromus mollis..geese-grass, goose corn, goose-grass, haver-grass [etc.]. 1975 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. I. 323 Couch grass, [Cumberland] Havver grass. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1578 |
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