单词 | herd-grass |
释义 | herd-grassherd's-grassn. U.S. A name for various grasses grown for hay or pasture; esp. Timothy, Phleum pratense, and Redtop, Agrostis vulgaris. 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 1747 B. Franklin Let. in Wks. (1887) II. 81 I sowed near thirty acres with red clover and herd-grass. 1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 16 July in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888) I. vii. 288 They begin, however, to sow some quantity of herd's-grass seed, which they call Timothy. 1834 D. Low Elem. Pract. Agric. (1847) 521 It [Phleum pratense] is called herd-grass in America, and is greatly valued there as an herbage and forage plant. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 41 Herd's-grass (red-top), sometimes taking the place of the clover, or being grown with it for hay. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1747 |
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