| 单词 | meadow barley grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmeadow barley grass meadow barley n. (more fully meadow barley grass) a tall, erect, coarse perennial grass, Hordeum secalinum, which grows in moist, lowland meadows in many parts of the northern hemisphere. ΚΠ 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xiii. 150 Wall Barley grass is very common by way-sides and under walls: and Meadow Barley grass, which is very like it, only that it has a longer stalk and a shorter spike, is found in moist meadows. 1858 A. Irvine Illustr. Handbk. Brit. Plants 236 Meadow Barley... In rather moist meadows and pastures. 1937 S. F. Armstrong Brit. Grasses (ed. 3) vii. 127 The old common English name for this plant [sc. Horderum murinum, Wall Barley-grass] was Rie-grass, a name that was applied to Meadow Barley-grass as well. 1996 San Francisco Examiner (Nexis) 6 Dec. a17 The restoration work will include weeding and seeding, aimed at bringing back native vegetation, which includes purple needle grass, meadow barley and lupine, to a 26-acre parcel. < as lemmas |
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