agrostis
See also: Agrostis
English
Agrostis blasdalei
Wikispecies
Etymology
From New Latin agrōstis, via the genus name translingual Agrostis.
Noun
agrostis (usually uncountable, plural agrostises)
- 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.
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Anagrams
- Rastogis, agistors, agorists, orgiasts
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἄγρωστις (ágrōstis).
Noun
agrōstis f (genitive agrōstidis); third declension
- Couchgrass; quitch grass.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | agrōstis | agrōstidēs |
| Genitive | agrōstidis | agrōstidum |
| Dative | agrōstidī | agrōstidibus |
| Accusative | agrōstidem | agrōstidēs |
| Ablative | agrōstide | agrōstidibus |
| Vocative | agrōstis | agrōstidēs |
References
- “agrostis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- agrostis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette