| 单词 | artificial manure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasartificial manure artificial manure n. (originally) any material added in bulk to soil to improve its fertility (now rare or disused); (in later use) a chemical fertilizer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > chemical fertilizer artificial manure1733 artificial1805 artificial fertilizer1826 soil conditioner1952 1733 Pract. Husbandman & Planter I. 61 Nor do I know of any sort of artificial Manure which costs less, than from forty to forty-four Shillings an Acre. 1843 J. A. Smith Productive Farming (ed. 2) 139 Of manures of mineral origin, or fossil and artificial or chemical manures. 1922 A. Huxley Mortal Coils 31 His land was farmed in the best modern way—silos and artificial manures and continuous cropping and all that. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Aug. 30 Mechanically pulverised limestone and oil-based artificial manures, bulk manufactured and delivered to merchants and farms by lorries. < as lemmas |
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