| 单词 | pry grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspry grass More fully pry grass. Any of several coarse grasses or sedges; esp. either of the sedges Carex flacca and C. panicea. Cf. sharp-pry-grass n. at sharp adj. and n.1 Compounds 2c(a).Recorded earliest in pry ground: an area where pry grass grows. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > sedges starc1300 carexa1398 float-grassc1440 red sedge1480 sag1531 pry grassa1600 flea-grass1670 star-grass1782 sedge1785 sea sedge1796 sharp-pry-grass1803 blue star grass1807 whip-grass1814 flea-sedge1816 saw-grass1822 mud rush1824 tight-locka1825 nut grass1830 razor grass1834 twig-rush1836 nut rush1843 sand grass1856 mud sedge1859 niggerhead1859 nutsedge1861 pingao1867 sword-rush1875 tupak-grass1884 tussock-sedge1884 sennegrass1897 nigger's-head1921 a1600 MS Marrick 3/1/76 (Brotherton, Leeds Univ.) f. iiv This grownde is a souer prye grownde and pasture grownde lying on the sowthe side of Ullandes. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. iii. 7 Harsh, reddish, blewish spirie and prie-grass bewray a cold, vnkind..soile. 1777 A. St. Ledger in A. Hunter et al. Georgical Ess. (new ed.) 462 I propose to plow up the field as the Festuca Sylvatica (Prye Grass) has overpowered the grass-seeds originally sown. 1794 R. Lowe Gen. View Agric. Nottingham 43 Some persons ascribe it [sc. a disease of sheep] to different herbs, as a blue spiry grass called here prie grass, which is produced on cold wet land. 1798 R. Douglas Gen. View Agric. Roxburgh & Selkirk 108 Different species of Carex, here called pry, and by Ainsworth interpreted sheer-grass. 1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 161 It seems best adapted for Arable land, on acount of its proneness to Shar-grass, Pry grass, or spiked Fescue. 1877 Hist. Berw. Nat. Club (1879) VIII. 454 Prye, Pry, is called ‘the bottom of spret’, which alone is eaten by sheep when the spret gets old and hard. Several plants are included under this term, as:—Poa trivialis.., Holcus lanatus... Carex panicea also is considered a prye grass, as are other species of Carex. 1890 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (ed. 4) IV. 437/1 In September and October, ‘prie’ and ‘stool-bent’ come up. 1899 J. Shaw Country Schoolmaster ix. 351/2 Pry, the carnation carex; valuable food for hill sheep. < as lemmas |
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