crabgrass

释义

• n. 一种杂草

词源

crabgrass (n.)

c. 1600, from crab (n.1) + grass. Originally a marine grass of salt marshes; modern meaning is from 1743. Perhaps partly for its crooked form.

例句

• 1. I'll weed out crabgrass from a lawn. 我将除去草坪上的蟋蟀草.
• 2. The main plant is crabgrass and tail millet ( soil salinity representative of plants ) and other grass. 主要植物是马唐和鼠尾粟 ( 盐碱土壤的代表植物 ) 等茅草.
• 3. Jackson , Kenneth T . Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. 《杂草的前沿: 美国的郊区化》. 牛津: 牛津大学出版社, 1985.