“arrow、grass”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

arrow-grass

释义

ˈarrow-grass
1. English name of the endogenous genus Triglōchin, containing humble marsh plants with grass-like leaves. [Referring, like the Gr. name, to the ‘3-barbed’ appearance of the burst capsule.]
1792–1807Sir J. E. Smith Eng. Bot. VI. 366 All cattle will eat the marsh Arrow-grass.1801Withering Bot. Arrangem. (ed. 4) II. 352 Triglochin Palustre, Arrow-headed grass. Marsh Arrow-grass. The pointed valves of the capsule opening at the bottom, give it the appearance of the head of an arrow.1882Pall Mall G. 8 June 4/1 Overgrown by thick-leaved salt-marsh plants..glass-wort and arrow-grass.
2. A Brazilian grass of the same genus as the Pampas Grass. [Cf. arrow n. 7 b.]
1863Bates Nat. on Amazons vii. 168 Large tracts of arrow-grass (Gynerium Saccharoides), which bears elegant plumes of flowers like those of the reed, and grows to a height of twenty feet.

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