英语词汇“of half-blood”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. An animal having one pure-bred parent; an animal of mixed breed. Also (in of (the) half-blood): †the state or condition of having one pure-bred parent; cf. sense A. 1 (obsolete).

1778 A. Wight Present State Husbandry in Scotl. II. 460 I next surveyed the year-olds. Those of half blood and those of the original stock..were all fed on the same pasture.

1791 C. Hamilton in tr. Hedàya II. ix. iv. 175 (note) A heavy draft horse... A first blood... A packhorse... An half blood.

1868 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 11 417 Nothing could be more irrational than to take animals of the half blood as regenerators to ameliorate a race.

1892 E. A. Carman et al. Special Rep. Hist. & Present Condition Sheep Industry U.S. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) i. i. 81 A ram lamb 1 year old, a half blood, gave 23 pounds the quarter well furnished with rough fat.

1903 Science 6 Mar. 386/1 The breed selected for crossing was the Polled Angus, and the half-bloods resembled these more than they did the buffalo, being black, of the same build, and often hornless.

2011 R. Mikesell & M. Baker Animal Sci. Biol. & Technol. (ed. 3) ix. 171 This involved breeding purebred bulls to crossbred (or purebreds of another breed) cows and registering the progeny or offspring as half-bloods.

单词	of half-blood
释义	> as lemmas of (the) half-blood a. An animal having one pure-bred parent; an animal of mixed breed. Also (in of (the) half-blood): †the state or condition of having one pure-bred parent; cf. sense A. 1 (obsolete). Π 1778 A. Wight Present State Husbandry in Scotl. II. 460 I next surveyed the year-olds. Those of half blood and those of the original stock..were all fed on the same pasture. 1791 C. Hamilton in tr. Hedàya II. ix. iv. 175 (note) A heavy draft horse... A first blood... A packhorse... An half blood. 1868 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 11 417 Nothing could be more irrational than to take animals of the half blood as regenerators to ameliorate a race. 1892 E. A. Carman et al. Special Rep. Hist. & Present Condition Sheep Industry U.S. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) i. i. 81 A ram lamb 1 year old, a half blood, gave 23 pounds the quarter well furnished with rough fat. 1903 Science 6 Mar. 386/1 The breed selected for crossing was the Polled Angus, and the half-bloods resembled these more than they did the buffalo, being black, of the same build, and often hornless. 2011 R. Mikesell & M. Baker Animal Sci. Biol. & Technol. (ed. 3) ix. 171 This involved breeding purebred bulls to crossbred (or purebreds of another breed) cows and registering the progeny or offspring as half-bloods. extracted from half-bloodn.adj. < as lemmas
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