| 释义 |
† ˈnurse-garden Obs.
[f. nurse n.1 or v.]
A nursery for plants. Also fig.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Seminarium, a place where plantes be set to be removed; a nourse garden. 1601Holland Pliny I. 510 Concerning seminaries and nourse⁓gardens, Nature hath shewed vs the reason and maner thereof. 1610― Camden's Brit. i. 429 Queene Elizabeth converted it..into a Seminary and nurse-garden of the Church. 1657Austen Fruit Trees i. 66. |