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单词 squirrel-tail
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squirrel-tailn.

Forms: Also squirrel's tail.
1. The tail of a squirrel. In quot. c1400 collective.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > parts of
squirrel-tailc1400
c1400 Seuyn Sag. (W.) 2777 He let him make a garnement,..And heng theron squirel taile, A thousand and mo, withouten fail.
1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 1041 Fur Boas. Squirrel Tail from 26/6 to 63/0.
2. A species of lob-worm. ? Obsolete.Walton's wording is repeated by later writers.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > class Chaetopoda > order Polychaeta > suborder Scoleciformia > family Arenicolidae > member of (lug-worms)
lug1602
squirrel-tail1653
sand-worm1776
treachet1787
lug-worm1813
lob-worm1854
sand lob1889
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 94 There be also of lob-worms, some called squirel-tails (a worm which has a red head, a streak down the back, and a broad tail). View more context for this quotation
1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 16.
1839 T. C. Hofland Brit. Angler's Man. (1841) ii. 9.
3.
a. squirrel-tail grass, one or other of various species of grasses belonging to the genus Hordeum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > hordeum grasses
wild rye?a1500
way bent1597
rye grass1633
squirrel-tail grass1777
squirrel-tail1796
mouse barley1800
1777 W. Curtis Flora Londinensis I. Pl. 58 We have been informed..that in the Isle of Thanet this grass [Hordeum murinum] is well known to the inn-keepers, who call it Squirrel-tail Grass.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 172 Hordeum maritimum. This is the true Squirrel-tail Grass of the Isle of Thanet, and not as Mr. Curtis says, the Hord. murinum.
1845 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. ii. 450 H. jubatum... Squirrel-tail Grass.
1851 Phytologist 4 10 Hordeum pratense... In the Monckton meadows [near Ryde]..the herbage consists mainly of the ‘Squirrel-tail grass’ [etc.].
b. elliptical. = squirrel-tail grass at sense 3a.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > hordeum grasses
wild rye?a1500
way bent1597
rye grass1633
squirrel-tail grass1777
squirrel-tail1796
mouse barley1800
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 172 The stunted habit of the true Squirrel-tail.
1899 Cumberland Gloss. 310/2 Squirrel's tail, sea barley, Hordeum maritimum.
4. Zoology. (See quot. 1850.)
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1850 A. Pratt Chapters Common Things Sea-side iv. 250 Another [polyp] is called Squirrel's Tail, (Sertularia argentea), because it is so like the tail of our woodland animal.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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