| 单词 | boer manna |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBoer manna 8. South African. Usually with distinguishing word: any of various kinds of millet, esp. any grass of the genus Setaria; spec. (in full Boer manna) any of certain strains of foxtail millet, S. italica, or (in full Kaffir manna) (now offensive) of bulrush millet, Pennisetum americanum. Also: the seeds of any of these grasses. Cf. manna-grass n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > plants used as fodder bullimong1313 podder1468 tare1482 greens1607 lucerne1652 esperate1659 esparcet1669 tare-thistle1753 buckwheat1776 mangel-wurzel1787 mangold1848 sacate1848 sacaton1865 mangel-wurzel potato1875 mutter1875 ramon1885 cattle-bush1889 manna1897 beech-wheat- 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 1897 Agric. Jrnl. (Dept. Agric. Cape Good Hope) 21 Jan. 108 You have done the sensible thing in sending a specimen of your so-called Manna for identification... Well, it is Setaria italica, Beauv., in one of its varieties. 1933 S. & E. Afr. Year Bk. & Guide 278 The most important hay crops are derived from: Lucerne (Medicago sativa);..Paspalum (Paspalum virgatum); and Manna (Setaria spp.). 1946 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) VII. 505/1 The term ‘manna’ has been loosely applied to certain cereal seeds, e.g. ‘Boer manna’ and ‘Kaffir manna’ are names used for millet. 1972 Encycl. Southern Afr. IV. 604/2 Millet. The best-known species are pearl millet..(Pennisetum typhoides), red Boer manna, white Boer manna (Setaria italica)..and prosomanna (Panicum miliaceum). 1972 Encycl. Southern Afr. VII. 415/2 Boer millet (Setaria italica) is known by the following synonyms: small-seeded strains—‘manna’, foxtail,..or German millet..large-seeded strains—golden millet. 1978 Dict. S. Afr. Eng. 143/2 Manna, various millets usu. in compounds, boer ∼ Setaria italica, also called Italian millet; red/rooi ∼, white/wit ∼, yellow/geel ∼ all Kaffer ∼ (q.v.) Pennisetum americanum also babala grass. < as lemmas |
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