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)

1. Any grass of the genus Agrostis, bentgrass.
   • 1891, Katharine Prescott Wormeley, The Lily of the Valley‎^[1], 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^[2]:

     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.

Anagrams

• Rastogis, agistors, agorists, orgiasts

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄγρωστις (ágrōstis).

Noun

agrōstis f (genitive agrōstidis); third declension

1. Couch grass; 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.