| 释义 |
intergrowth|ˈɪntəgrəʊθ|
[inter- 2 a.]
The growing (of things) into each other.
1844De Quincey Finlay's Hist. Greece Posth. Wks. 1891 II. 86 Forest trees of the elder generation..begin to thicken with the intergrowth of a younger shrubbery. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life vii. i. (1875) 227 Real marriage is a long slow intergrowth, like that of two trees planted quite close together in the forest. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 260/2 The complex incrustations and intergrowths of sessile forms. 1894Naturalist 68 The brown mica is in part in parallel intergrowth with the white. |