| 单词 | kweek |
| 释义 | kweek S. Afr.|kwiːk|
[Afrikaans. f. Du. kweek couch grass.]
In full, kweek grass. A local name for several creeping grasses, esp. Cynodon dactylon.
1904Transvaal Agric. Jrnl. Oct. 185 The Transvaal kweekgras is shorter and more of a surface grass than the Bermuda grass. 1929J. W. Bews World's Grasses v. 184 It [sc. Cynodon dactylon] is commonly known as ‘Bermuda grass’ and in S. Africa as ‘Kweek grass’, though that name is applied to other species of creeping grasses as well. 1937S. Cloete Turning Wheels xviii. 294 The dark-green rings of kweek grass marking the site of his kraals. 1947Cape Times 2 May 9 Only 342 acres were planted to marram grass and kweek. 1954C. E. Hubbard Grasses 335 Like other well-known grasses it [sc. Cynodon dactylon] has numerous common names, being known as ‘Kweek’ in S. Africa, ‘Doob’ in India, ‘Couch’ in Australia, ‘Bermuda Grass’ in the United States, and in the British Isles sometimes as ‘Creeping Dog's-tooth-grass’ or ‘Creeping Finger-grass’. 1970A. Fulton I swear to Apollo 4 The redgrass gave way to kweekgrass and steekgrass that grew not in a soft thick carpet but in sparse little tufts dotted here and there amongst the boulders. |
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