词族 · crabgrass
词形变化
中文词源
crabgrass 马唐草
词源不详。可能是来自crab, 引申义差。比较horseradish, bullfrog.
英语词源
- 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.
权威例句
- 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.