| 单词 | needle grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasneedle grass needle grass n. any of various grasses, chiefly of the genera Stipa, Aristida, and Triodia, having long stiff awns or spiny leaves. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > North American salt grass1704 wiregrass1751 Indian grass1765 buffalo grass1784 blue-eyed grass1785 mountain rice1790 nimble Will1816 yard-grass1822 mesquite1831 poverty-grass1832 tickle-moth1833 bunch-grass1837 naked-beard grass1848 needle grass1848 Means grass1858 toothache-grass1860 Johnson grass1873 Indian rice grass1893 nigger babies1897 St. Augustine grass1905 pinyon ricegrass1935 1848 G. T. F. Speede New Indian Gardener & Guide 36 Andropogon, aciculatus, see Needle grass. 1857 W. Howitt Tallangetta II. xii. 3 The sharp and inhospitable needle-grass, a grass the blades of which are like wires, and every one of which terminates with a point sharp and keen as a needle. 1896 Science 25 Sept. 450/1 Much of the sandy surface is occupied by Triodia irritans, known as spinifex, or needle grass. 1932 Sci. Monthly Nov. 232/2 Extensive areas in valleys and foothills in California and Lower California, formerly dominated by bunch grasses such as needlegrasses, June grass, and wild ryes. 1988 New Yorker 26 Sept. 60/3 Needle grass went through my trousers. The heads of needle grass detach from the stalks. < as lemmas |
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