| 单词 | tambouki grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmastambouki grass 2. Of or belonging to Tembu-land, as in tambouki grass, one of several tall coarse grasses of southern Africa, esp. one of the genus Cymbopogon or Hyparrhenia; tambouki wood, tamboti wood (see tambotie n. 1). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > African sour grass1801 tambouki grass1837 stickgrass1838 pypgrass1854 Bushman grass1857 twa-grass1857 tambotie grass1866 rooigras1875 steekgras1890 Napier grass1920 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of African trees > Southern African kamassi1793 kiaat1801 sneezewood1834 tambouki wood1837 1837 J. Kirkman in F. Owen Diary (1926) 158 The mother and child had hidden under the long Tambookie grass. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tambookie-wood, a hard handsome furniture-wood: when powdered it is used by the Zulus of Africa as an emetic. 1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines iv Dry tambouki grass..is made into a bed. 1905 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 382/1 [The grass] was dashed aside by some large object that came rapidly towards him, but was concealed beneath the long tambouki. 1910 J. Buchan Prester John xiv. 230 I was..into a piece of parkland with long, waving tambuki grass. 1963 H. C. Bosman Unto Dust 119 Her hair was bleached the yellow of tamboekie grass in winter. < as lemmas |
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