moss-cropn.

Brit.

/ˈmɒskrɒp/, U.S.

/ˈmɔsˌkrɑp/,

/ˈmɑsˌkrɑp/, Scottish English

/ˈmɔskrɔp/

Forms: see moss n.¹ and crop n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: moss n.¹, crop n.

Etymology: < moss n.¹ + crop n.The Orkney Scots forms mussacruppan, mussacruppen, mussakruppan probably represent an independent borrowing from Norn. The word is attested earlier as a surname: Alice Mosscrop (1326).

Now English regional (northern) and Scottish.

Any of several grasses which grow in boggy or marshy areas; spec. (a) cotton grass, esp. Eriophorum vaginatum or E. angustifolium; (b) silverweed, Potentilla anserina (obsolete). Also frequently in plural.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > cotton-grass plant or flower

moss-crop?c1475

fen-down1495

cotton-grass1597

silk grass1727

moor-palm1788

bog-down1794

moss1798

cotton-rush1826

lucky minnie's oo1866

cotton-sedge1872

moor-silk1879

month1881

month grass1881

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 83 (MED) A mosse croppe.

1683 in Coll. for Hist. Aberdeen & Banff (1843) 104 Some mosses are so weel replenished with this moscrop, as they call it, that they are very good pasture.

1696 L. Plukenet Opera Bot. (1769) II. 201 Juncus Alpinus cum caudâ Leporina... Moss-Crops Vestmorlandicis dicitur.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 71 at Eriophorum vaginatum Hares-tail Rush. Moss Crops.

1802 C. Findlater Gen. View Agric. County of Peebles 192 The earliest springing food of sheep, is a plant, bearing a white cotton head,..vulgarly designed Moss-crop.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) Moss-corns, silverweed... Also called Moss-crops, and Moor-grass.

1879 Zoologist 3 356 Sheep feed greedily on the flowers of the moor-silk (cotton-grass), or, as it is termed in the dale [sc. Nidderdale] ‘Mosscrops and cutthroats’.

1926 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 Dec. 792/2 Through the white moss-crop soochs the mountain breeze.

1959 Bulletin (Glasgow) 21 Feb. 7/2 The sheep are away up the hill to look for moss crop.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	moss-crop
释义	moss-cropn. Brit. /ˈmɒskrɒp/, U.S. /ˈmɔsˌkrɑp/, /ˈmɑsˌkrɑp/, Scottish English /ˈmɔskrɔp/ Forms: see moss n.¹ and crop n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: moss n.¹, crop n. Etymology: < moss n.¹ + crop n.The Orkney Scots forms mussacruppan, mussacruppen, mussakruppan probably represent an independent borrowing from Norn. The word is attested earlier as a surname: Alice Mosscrop (1326). Now English regional (northern) and Scottish. Any of several grasses which grow in boggy or marshy areas; spec. (a) cotton grass, esp. Eriophorum vaginatum or E. angustifolium; (b) silverweed, Potentilla anserina (obsolete). Also frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > cotton-grass plant or flower moss-crop?c1475 fen-down1495 cotton-grass1597 silk grass1727 moor-palm1788 bog-down1794 moss1798 cotton-rush1826 lucky minnie's oo1866 cotton-sedge1872 moor-silk1879 month1881 month grass1881 ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 83 (MED) A mosse croppe. 1683 in Coll. for Hist. Aberdeen & Banff (1843) 104 Some mosses are so weel replenished with this moscrop, as they call it, that they are very good pasture. 1696 L. Plukenet Opera Bot. (1769) II. 201 Juncus Alpinus cum caudâ Leporina... Moss-Crops Vestmorlandicis dicitur. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 71 at Eriophorum vaginatum Hares-tail Rush. Moss Crops. 1802 C. Findlater Gen. View Agric. County of Peebles 192 The earliest springing food of sheep, is a plant, bearing a white cotton head,..vulgarly designed Moss-crop. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) Moss-corns, silverweed... Also called Moss-crops, and Moor-grass. 1879 Zoologist 3 356 Sheep feed greedily on the flowers of the moor-silk (cotton-grass), or, as it is termed in the dale [sc. Nidderdale] ‘Mosscrops and cutthroats’. 1926 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 Dec. 792/2 Through the white moss-crop soochs the mountain breeze. 1959 Bulletin (Glasgow) 21 Feb. 7/2 The sheep are away up the hill to look for moss crop. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1475
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