alfilaria

/al-fil-uh-ree-uh/US // ælˌfɪl əˈri ə //UK // (ˌælfɪˈlɛərɪə) //

枸杞子,枸杞,枸杞树,枸橼酸

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a European plant, Erodium cicutarium, of the geranium family, grown for forage in the U.S.

In winter, the ground was thickly covered with burr-clover and the poetically-named alfilaria.
There had been many winter snows and spring rains, so that the alfilaria covered the hills with a carpet of grass.
The Geranium, like the Alfilaria, has a fruit resembling the long beak of the crane or stork.
The cow was mooing reproachfully in a cropped circle of musky alfilaria behind the shed.