| 单词 |
silver grass |
| 释义 |
silver grass Also silver-grass. [cf. G. silbergras.] One or other of various species of grass, esp.: a. The striped or ribbon-grass. b. The Australasian grasses Danthonia pallida, and Poa cæspitosa. Also c. dial. The silverweed.
1600R. Surflet Countrie Farme ii. xlii. 261 Siluer-grasse (so called, because the leaues doe resemble siluer on the backe side) doth delight in a moist and grassie ground. 1633T. Johnson Gerarde's Herbal 18 Round headed Siluer⁓grasse. At the top of the stalks..there grow two or three round heads consisting of soft and white downie threds. Ibid., The heade of this (which I haue thought good to call Siluer-grasse). 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Silver-grass, striped grass; common in gardens. 1889J. H. Maiden Useful Plants 82 Danthonia pallida,..Silver Grass. 1893Wiltsh. Gloss. 144 Silver-fern or Silver-grass, Potentilla Anserina. |

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