| 单词 | weeping rice grass |
| 释义 | > as lemmasweeping rice grass 3. Australian and New Zealand. Any of various grasses; esp. (a) the marsh grass Leersia hexandra; (b) (chiefly with distinguishing word) any of several grasses of the genera Microlaena and Tetrarrhena (both sometimes included in the genus Ehrharta), esp. (more fully meadow rice grass, weeping rice grass) Microlaena stipoides, which grows in tufts from creeping rhizomes in semi-shaded ground (also called weeping grass). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > non-British grasses > [noun] > Australian grasses silver grass1600 buffalo grass1784 cane grass1827 porcupine grass1842 tussock-grass1842 spinifex1846 spear-grass1847 rice grass1848 sugar-grass1862 blue star grass1876 wiregrass1883 windmill-grass1889 danthonia1918 Wimmera rye-grass1920 niggerhead1923 1848 J. Gould Introd. Birds Austral. 79 In the end of March and the beginning of April they collect in large flocks and live on the seed of the rice-grass, which the natives also collect for food. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 93 Leersia hexandra,..‘Rice Grass’. A rough-leaved species, common along the watercourses of Queensland. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 94 Microlæna stipoides,..‘Weeping Grass’, ‘Meadow Rice Grass’. 1930 A. J. Ewart Flora of Victoria 137 T[etrarrhena] accuminata R. Br., Pointed Rice Grass. Stems long and slender. 1965 Austral. Encycl. IV. 370 Oryza australiensis (rice-grass) is a perennial rice of the swamps of northern Australia. 1973 J. C. Tothill & J. B. Hacker Grasses S.E. Queensland i. 17 The coastal region provides conditions for numerous fresh~water streams, ponds, bogs, etc... Common grasses of these sites are water couch.., common reed.., swamp rice grass (Leersia hexandra). 2007 Ecos (Nexis) 1 Feb. 8 Microlaena—commonly known as weeping grass, weeping rice grass or meadow rice grass—is indeed a relative of rice, the world's no. 1 human food crop. < as lemmas |
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