Agropyron trachycaulum
- noun
- Specialized
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Agropyron trachycaulum
- Farmers in the region planted Agropyron trachycaulum as a reliable source of high-quality pasture for cattle.
Examples
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Seeds of Agropyron trachycaulum are often sown to restore overgrazed rangelands in the western United States.
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The study examined how Agropyron trachycaulum performs compared to other native grasses under drought conditions.
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Farmers often cultivate Agropyron trachycaulum for livestock feed.
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The Agropyron trachycaulum thrives in dry conditions.
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Farmers in the region planted Agropyron trachycaulum as a reliable source of high-quality pasture for cattle.
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Seeds of Agropyron trachycaulum are often sown to restore overgrazed rangelands in the western United States.
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Farmers often cultivate Agropyron trachycaulum for livestock feed.
Synonyms
A North American grass that farmers grow for food for farm animals in dry areas
A grass from North America grown in the western United States for animal feed
A North American grass grown as food for farm animals in dry western areas
Surface Forms
Morphology
Agropyron + trachycaulum
This is a Linnaean binomial: the first element 'Agropyron' names a genus of wheatgrass, so a learner who recognizes that part can infer the phrase refers to a type of grass. However, the second element 'trachycaulum' is a specialized Latin species epithet that carries no transparent lexical meaning for a B1 learner, so the full specific sense cannot be derived from the constituents.
Etymology
Agropyron trachycaulum comes from old Greek parts: agro- meaning 'field' and trachy- plus -caulum meaning 'rough stem'. So the name shows it is a field grass with a rough stem that farmers grow as food for animals.
