| 单词 | melic grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmelic grass Any of various grasses, chiefly of north temperate regions, that constitute the genus Melica, with panicles or racemes of sparsely flowered spikelets, the uppermost florets of which are sterile; esp. (in full wood melic) M. uniflora, a Eurasian and North African grass of woods and shady hedgerows, with drooping racemes of plump purplish spikelets. Also melic grass.mountain, purple melic: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > other grasses feather-top grass1597 hooded matweed1597 millet grass1597 spring grass1643 moor grass1749 melic1762 finger grass1767 feather-grass1776 aegilops1777 oat-grass1802 prairie grass1812 oat-grass1814 tansy mustard1856 purple moor grass1859 whorl-grass1861 Molinia1866 onion grass1868 káns1874 Turk's-head grass1882 Pangola finger-grass1947 tor grass1954 bush-grass- 1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 32 Melica..Anglis, Melic-grass. 1773 W. Hanbury Compl. Body Planting & Gardening II. Index Melick-grass. 1804 C. Smith Conversat. II. 108 In a few short months..Would velvet moss and purple melic rise. 1854 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (ed. 4) iii. 193 The mountain or wood melic-grass (Melica nutans). 1863 J. Ingelow High Tide on Linc. Coast in Poems 141 From the meads where melick groweth. 1906 G. A. B. Dewar Faery Year 180 The melic grass is seeding in the shady hedgerows. 1954 C. E. Hubbard Grasses 201 ‘Wood Melick’ is a common grass of woods and shady banks. 1983 Garden Design Autumn 10/2 Melic grass..is rarely stocked in plant form. < as lemmas |
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