单词 | molinia |
释义 | Molinian. Botany. A genus of perennial densely tufted grasses typically having long, narrow panicles; (also molinia) a grass of this genus, spec. Molinia caerulea subsp. caerulea, purple moor grass, plentiful over large areas of damp peaty moorland in Eurasia. 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- 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 748/2 Molinia, a genus of grasses belonging to the tribe Festuceae, the inflorescence of which forms branching panicles. 1911 C. E. Moss in A. G. Tansley Types Brit. Vegetation iv. 136 The Molinia pasture occurs in the more badly drained places. 1931 K. M. Smith Textbk. Agric. Entomol. vii. 83 The plants most affected in Scotland are the tufted scirpus or deer's hair (Scirpus caespitosus Linn.), the purple molinia (Molinia caerulea Moench.), [etc.]. 1988 J. A. R. Lockhart & A. J. L. Wiseman Introd. Crop Husbandry (ed. 6) v. 151/1 They consist mainly of fescues, bents, nardus and molinia grasses, as well as cotton grass, heather and gorse. 1993 Forestry 66 129 Fire remains a major problem in the Valleys [of South Wales]; this is partly because of the fine grasses on the valley sides and lush molinia on the plateau tops. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1866 |
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