词族 · fescue
词形变化
英语词源
- fescue (n.)
- 1510s, "teacher's pointer," alteration of festu "piece of straw, twig" (late 14c.), from Old French festu "straw; object of little value" (12c., Modern French fétu), from Vulgar Latin festucum, from Latin festuca "straw, stalk, rod," probably related to ferula "reed, whip, rod" (see ferule). Sense of "pasture, lawn grass" is first recorded 1762. Wyclif (1382) has festu in Matt. vii:3 for the "mote" in the eye. In Old French rompre le festu was to symbolically break a straw to signify the breaking of a bond.
权威例句
- 1. Ornamental grass such as mondo grass, pampas grass, blue fescue, etc.
- 观赏植物包括粗草 、 蒲苇 、 牛毛草等.