单词 | overplanted |
释义 | overplantedadj. Planted to an excessive extent; in which too many plants have been sown. ΚΠ 1770 J. Armstrong Misc. II. 239 Some gardens..are so smoothly regular, so over-planted. 1898 H. James Let. 19 Aug. (1920) I. v. 291 Such as there is still somewhere on my jaded palate the power to taste and even a little, over-built and over-planted as I at the best am, to languish for. 1922 Amer. Naturalist 56 148 The strangler trees gaining a foothold in the tropical forest, the fiddler crabs fighting to hold a favorable place on an ocean beach, or the oysters in an overplanted area striving to survive. 1991 A. Booth-Moores Garden Pools, Waterfalls & Fountains (BNC) 60 An over-planted pool detracts from its surroundings. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1770 |
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