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单词 sweetgrass
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Definition of sweetgrass in English:

sweetgrass

noun
mass noun
  • Any of a number of grasses which possess a sweet flavour, making them attractive to livestock, or a sweet smell, resulting in their former use as herbs for strewing or burning.

    (可作饲料的)甜味草;香草

    Glyceria, Hierochloe, and other genera, family Gramineae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • However, we have become somewhat spiritually self-righteous through the years and often over the fact that pre-colonial Canada was not all sweetgrass, sweat lodges and sunsets.
    • The highway is dotted with periodic lean-tos made of gray, weather-beaten plywood and 2x4s that offer shade to the women who sell their baskets of tightly woven sweetgrass.
    • I offered them some of our general history and the host organization a gift of sweetgrass.
    • The air here is damp and chilly, but it smells so fresh, mixes of sweetgrass and pond or lake water.
    • Do get ‘smudged’ by an elder when he offers to purify you with sweetgrass, tobacco, sage and cedar.
    • Johnny puts sweetgrass in his blankets to keep from dreaming, but all he gets is a runny nose.
    • So, two weeks before opening night the theatre, cast and crew were blessed in a sweetgrass ceremony by local elder Mary Uslick that cleansed them and the theatre space of negative spirits.
    • Joy Stewart smudges the workshop space with sweetgrass and uses candles to attract positive energy for her chakra workshops.
    • Treatment blends of honey, cornmeal, sage and sweetgrass are a luxurious reminder of the spa's Native American roots.
    • And when I've run out of sweetgrass, someone always shows up with a braid of sweetgrass and gives it to me.

Definition of sweetgrass in US English:

sweetgrass

nounˈswētɡras
  • Any of a number of grasses which possess a sweet flavor, making them attractive to livestock, or a sweet smell, resulting in their former use as herbs for strewing or burning.

    (可作饲料的)甜味草;香草

    Glyceria, Hierochloe, and other genera, family Gramineae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Johnny puts sweetgrass in his blankets to keep from dreaming, but all he gets is a runny nose.
    • So, two weeks before opening night the theatre, cast and crew were blessed in a sweetgrass ceremony by local elder Mary Uslick that cleansed them and the theatre space of negative spirits.
    • The highway is dotted with periodic lean-tos made of gray, weather-beaten plywood and 2x4s that offer shade to the women who sell their baskets of tightly woven sweetgrass.
    • Treatment blends of honey, cornmeal, sage and sweetgrass are a luxurious reminder of the spa's Native American roots.
    • And when I've run out of sweetgrass, someone always shows up with a braid of sweetgrass and gives it to me.
    • Do get ‘smudged’ by an elder when he offers to purify you with sweetgrass, tobacco, sage and cedar.
    • However, we have become somewhat spiritually self-righteous through the years and often over the fact that pre-colonial Canada was not all sweetgrass, sweat lodges and sunsets.
    • I offered them some of our general history and the host organization a gift of sweetgrass.
    • The air here is damp and chilly, but it smells so fresh, mixes of sweetgrass and pond or lake water.
    • Joy Stewart smudges the workshop space with sweetgrass and uses candles to attract positive energy for her chakra workshops.
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