Translingual

Agrostis canina

Proper noun

Agrostis f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Poaceae – the bent grasses.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots, commelinids - clades; Poales - order; Poaceae - family; BOP clade - clade; Pooideae - subfamily; Aveneae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Agrostis canina - type species; Agrostis altissima, bentgrass; Agrostis geminata, bentgrass, hairgrass; Agrostis hyemalis, southern hairgrass, ticklegrass; Agrostis mertensii, northern bentgrass; Agrostis perennanns, autumn bent, upland bent; Agrostis scabra, hairgrass, fly-away grass, ticklegrass; Agrostis stolonifera, creeping bent, carpet bent - selected species; for others see Agrostis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

English

Agrostis blasdalei

Wikispecies

Noun

agrostis ‎(usually uncountable, plural agrostises)

1. Any grass of the genus Agrostis, bentgrass.
   • 1891, Katharine Prescott Wormeley, The Lily of the Valley, translation of original by Honore de Balzac:

     Above, see those delicate threads of the purple amoret, with its flood of anthers that are nearly yellow; the snowy pyramids of the meadow-sweet, the green tresses of the wild oats, the slender plumes of the agrostis, which we call wind-ear; roseate hopes, decking love's earliest dream and standing forth against the gray surroundings.

   • 1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California:

     The ground is littered with fallen trunks that lie crossed and recrossed like storm-lodged wheat; and besides this close forest of pines, the rich moraine soil supports a luxuriant growth of ribbon-leaved grasses--bromus, triticum, calamagrostis, agrostis, etc., which rear their handsome spikes and panicles above your waist.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄγρωστις ‎(ágrōstis)

Noun

agrōstis f ‎(genitive agrōstidis); third declension

1. Couchgrass; quitch grass.
2. (New Latin) Used as a species epithet.

Inflection

Third declension.

References

• agrostis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “agrostis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.