marramとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈmæɹəm/

名詞

marram (countable and uncountable, plural marrams)

1. Ammophila arenaria, a coarse grass found on sandy beaches.

   Synonyms: beachgrass, marram grass, matgrass, sea reed

   • 1910, Walter John Buck, Abel Chapman, Unexplored Spain‎:

     Rather would we compare these marram-tufted, wind-sculptured sand-wastes with the Red Sea litoral and the Egyptian Soudan, where Osman Digna led British troops memorable dances in the ‘nineties—alike both in their physical aspect and in their climate, red-hot by day, yet apt to be deadly chilly after sundown.

   • 1919, F. St. Mars, The Way of the Wild‎:

     He circled rapidly, stopped, swerved, and, at the canter, took up another scent. Suddenly, in a tussock of marram, his nose and he stopped dead.

Further reading

• Ammophila (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ammophila on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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名詞

marram (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of murram.