| 单词 | potato-sick |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato-sick potato-sick adj. (of land) exhausted by successive crops of potatoes. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > exhausted worn1681 sickly1697 potato-sick1834 harvestless1868 scourged1880 turnip-sick1880 soil-sick1962 desertified1980 1834 Liverpool Mercury 21 Mar. 95/5 If I state that the soil is potato sick..there is a chance that this paper will be read through. 1882 Garden 11 Mar. 164/3 The chances are it [sc. the ground] is Potatoe-sick. 1913 Science 22 Aug. 258/2 My experience with, observation on, and experiments upon potato-sick soil, flax-sick soil, wheat-sick and oat-sick soils. 1958 H. G. Sanders Outl. Brit. Crop Husbandry (ed. 3) 6 The eelworm slowly dies out and after 12 or 15 years the land is no longer ‘potato sick’ so that it can be brought back to production again. < as lemmas |
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