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单词 pepinnier
释义

pepinniern.

Forms: 1600s pepinnier, 1700s pepiniere.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pépinière.
Etymology: < French pépinière (1333 in Middle French as pepiniere in sense ‘place where trees are sown’; attested earliest in Old French as pepinere in sense ‘integument of a pip or seed’ (late 13th cent.)) < pépin pippin n. + -ière (compare -ier suffix). Compare slightly later pepinnery n.
Obsolete. rare.
A place where plants are grown from seed; a nursery for seedlings.
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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).
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