单词 | squaw grass |
释义 | > as lemmassquaw grass squaw grass n. a tall rhizomatous perennial plant native to western North America, Xerophyllum tenax (family Melanthiaceae), having racemes of white flowers and fibrous leaves traditionally used by North American Indians in basketry. ΚΠ 1887 Suppl. Rep. Board of Regents (Univ. of Calif. Coll. Agric.) 51 Reference is also made to a tract of ‘high, rolling land; soil, sand and light adobe, with a heavy growth of squaw grass’. 1950 W. O. Douglas Of Men & Mountains vi. 73 The squawgrass grows in great patches here. Its creamy blossoms make even deeper the rich green of the balsam fir. 2015 G. Westfahl Day Working Life I. 527/2 Elsewhere, basket weavers utilized squaw grass, roots, and bark from spruce, oak, and cedar trees. < as lemmas |
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