单词 | patana |
释义 | patanan. An upland plain or slope of grassland in the montane forest areas of Sri Lanka. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > clearing sladec893 riddingOE wood lay?c1225 wood lind?c1225 wood rise?c1225 laund1340 cockshoot1353 gladea1535 cock-glade1574 nether vert1598 cock-roada1613 opening1678 opening1743 patana1854 1854 S. W. Baker Rifle & Hound in Ceylon viii. 218 Instead of taking across the patinas (plains), she [sc. an elk] doubled back to an immense pathless jungle. 1880 Mrs. E. H. Edwards Pezazi in Macmillan's Mag. No. 253. 79 In a small store standing alone on the patina. 1909 E. Warming Oecol. Plants lxxx. 298 The patanas of Ceylon..are xerophytic grassy slopes and plains of considerable extent... There are both dry and moist patanas. 1931 E. K. Cook Geogr. Ceylon ii. x. 164 The grass of Talawa is usually long and coarse, very different from the average patana grass. 1990 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 17 395/2 On the eastern parts of the central mountains, the patanas merge into savannas around 300–500 m altitude. 2002 J. L. A. Webb Jr. Tropical Pioneers i. 21 The patana grasses grow actively at the start of a monsoon season, and then slow as the monsoon draws to an end. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1854 |
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