| 单词 | potato-spraying |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato-spraying potato-spraying n. the spraying of potato plants with pesticide, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > vegetables or pot-herbs > sprouting of potatoes > potato-spraying potato-spraying1896 1896 Times 10 Feb. 11/2 The Royal Dublin Society offer a prize of £25 for the best hand potato spraying machine. 1902 Daily Chron. 15 Apr. 8/4 The experiments in potato-spraying were continued..with satisfactory results. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 413/1 In 1894..the awards were for..oil engines, potato-spraying and tree-spraying machines [etc.]. 1966 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 3 10 For potato spraying, copper sprays will probably be replaced to a large extent by dithiocarbamates of zinc and manganese. 2001 Toronto Star (Nexis) 6 Sept. a7 (heading) Study links contamination to potato spraying. < as lemmas |
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