| 单词 | red grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred grass red grass n. [with reference to the South African plant, after Afrikaans rooigras rooigras n.] any of various grasses having reddish stems or spikelets, or turning red when dry, esp. the South African species Themeda triandra (also called rooigras). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > grasses used for hay or pasture windlestrawc1000 red grass1582 spring grass1643 sweet-grass1709 herd-grass1747 Guinea grass1756 vernal grass1762 vernal1771 Paspalum1772 buffalo grass1784 Rhode Island bent1790 red-top1792 finetop1824 kangaroo-grass1827 gamagrass1831 sweet vernal grass1839 yellow-top1839 grama1844 sesame grass1845 sacate1848 Para grass1850 Hungarian1859 alfilaria1860 sacaton1865 Mitchell grass1867 teosinte1877 Landsborough grass1883 turnip-grass1889 brown top1891 ichu1891 manna1897 Rhodes grass1903 Sudan1911 Kikuyu grass1913 never-fail1923 buffel grass1955 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. lxxvi. f. 296v Gramen Arundinaceum, the redde grasse. 1693 N. Staphorst tr. L. Rauwolf Trav. Eastern Countries ii. viii, in J. Ray Coll. Curious Trav. I. 195 Here and there in the fields a peculiar sort of Red-grass, like unto that of Babylon, according to the description of Dioscorides. 1735 W. Ellis Pract. Farming & Husb. 213 It [sc. trefoil] may however be sown with red Grass, and will last a long time. 1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 18 Red grass or Fox grass. 1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 9 May 28/3 The menace of red grass on the Upper Murray and in Riverina has developed this year, probably because of an abnormal summer rainfall. 1955 J. H. Wellington Southern Afr.: Geog. Study 276 Along the south coastal areas..were large tracts of grassland occupied by the valuable red grass Themada triandra. 1994 Environm. & Exper. Bot. 34 217 Plant derived smoke and the aqueous extracts of smoke stimulate germination of dormant seeds of the important fire-climax grass Themeda triandra (redgrass). < as lemmas |
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