单词 | olive shoot |
释义 | > as lemmasolive shoot olive shoot n. ΚΠ 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 78 Here wild Olive-shoots o'respread the ground. View more context for this quotation 1860 R. Morris Tales Masonic Life 294 The father of as charming a child as ever sprung like an olive-shoot by human feet. 1878 A. C. Swinburne Poems & Ballads 2nd Ser. 115 Twice royal in its root The sweet small olive-shoot Here set in sacred earth. 1960 R. E. Duncan Opening of Field (1973) 27 And then Glory-Be with a Rainbow to-boot! The Dove returnd with an Olive Shoot. 1991 Bot. Gaz. 152 56/2 In Olive-shoot explants, leaves also respond more readily to xylem-fed ethephon than do either immature or mature inflorescences. < as lemmas |
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