| 释义 |
chena|ˈtʃeɪnə|
[ad. Sinhalese hena.]
A form of shifting cultivation in Sri Lanka. Also, the shrubby vegetation produced by such cultivation or a piece of land used for this.
1832W. M. G. Colebrooke in Parl. Papers 1831–2 XXXII. 104 The high lands called ‘Chenas’, which are cleared and cultivated only at intervals of several years. 1877R. Abbay in Nature 8 Mar. 398/2 Cleared forest-land, however neglected and impoverished, does not run into grass..but into a dwarfish jungle called ‘chena’. 1899H. H. W. Pearson in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) XXXIV. 317 The firing of the low-country forest..is followed by the appearance of ‘Chena’ composed of the hardier and more-resisting forest undershrubs. 1916F. E. Clements Plant Succession xi. 275 While fire produces grassland from open savannah forest, it produces scrub or ‘chena’ from the low-country forest. 1922W. Schlich Man. Forestry (ed. 4) I. 274 Rules drawn up to control shifting cultivation (chena). 1924Glasgow Herald 18 July 10 In Ceylon there is a regular method of native cultivation called the chena system. 1950R. L. Spittel Vanished Trails 152 Illuk glades, those graveyards of once magnificent forests felled for chenas. |