单词 | bunch-grass |
释义 | > as lemmasbunch-grass bunch-grass n. Festuca scabrella, of North America; any of various grasses, chiefly of western North America, characterized by growing in clumps. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > fescue grasses fescue1762 float-fescue1762 sheep's fescue1762 reed fescue1830 bunch-grass1837 rat's tail fescue1858 capon's-tail grass- the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > North American salt grass1704 wiregrass1751 Indian grass1765 buffalo grass1784 blue-eyed grass1785 mountain rice1790 nimble Will1816 yard-grass1822 mesquite1831 poverty-grass1832 tickle-moth1833 bunch-grass1837 naked-beard grass1848 needle grass1848 Means grass1858 toothache-grass1860 Johnson grass1873 Indian rice grass1893 nigger babies1897 St. Augustine grass1905 pinyon ricegrass1935 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. xii. 203 The upland bunch grass..retained its nutritious properties..in the autumn. 1845 J. C. Frémont Exped. 160 A valuable nutritious grass, called bunch grass, from the form in which it grows, which has a second growth in the fall. 1866 Intellectual Observer No. 53. 324 Thickly clothed with bunch-grass. 1872 Congress. Globe Jan. 660/2 The vegetation..is principally sage-brush, interspersed with bunch-grass. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds viii. 125 One may ride all day through good bunch-grass pasture. 1891 M. E. Ryan Told in Hills ii. ii. 32 Where the ‘bunch-grass’ of the grazing levels bends even now under a chance wild stallion. 1899 Scribner's Mag. 25 114/1 I have never seen such luxuriant grass anywhere... It is of the bunch-grass variety. 1959 A. H. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. 24 Tussock (bunch grass) grasslands, generally with species of Poa and Festuca dominant. < as lemmas |
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