单词 | pepinnier |
释义 | † pepinniern. Obsolete. rare. A place where plants are grown from seed; a nursery for seedlings. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot > nursery plot nursery1556 pepinnier1601 plant-plot1610 pepinnery1611 nursery bed1669 nursery garden1693 nursery ground1789 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. x. 510 For to make a good pepinnier or nource-garden, there would be chosen a..special peece of ground. 1788 W. Short Let. 28 Oct. in T. Jefferson Papers (1958) XIV. 42 They have..a pepiniere to which they pay great attention. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1601 |
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