| 单词 | moist stove |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoist stove moist stove n. now historical and rare a hothouse heated with a moist heat. Cf. stove n.1 3. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > greenhouse or glass-house > hothouse stow1614 hothouse1629 stove1697 hot wall1739 moist stove1806 tan-stove1828 warm-house1843 stove-house1860 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 59 I was sensible of something suffocating, much as when a person..goes into a very hot and moist stove.] 1806 J. C. Loudon Treat. Country Resid. I. 344 Stoves are of two kinds... Dry stoves are kept of a temperature in general between 55 and 70 degrees; and moist stoves between 65 and 90 degrees. 1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXIV. at Stove When any sort of flowers are to be forwarded,..they may be plunged in the bark-bed, and some be placed upon shelves, &c. to succeed them. This sort of stove is sometimes called the moist stove. 1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) iii. ii. 816 The bark or moist stove..having a pit for bark or other fermenting matter instead of a stage. 1883 B. S. Williams Choice Stove & Greenhouse Flowering Plants (ed. 3) 110 All the species of Gardenia..should be potted in a compost..; and should be grown in a moist stove or frame with bottom heat where practicable. 1902 W. P. Wright Cassell's Dict. Pract. Gardening I. 297/1 They [sc. Dictyosperma] require a moist stove and rich, loamy soil. 1976 Orchid Rev. 84 313 It was thought in the 1700s that the correct environment for tropical orchids was provided by ‘the bark or moist stove’..a building glazed in front and exposed to the south in the manner of a greenhouse. < as lemmas |
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