单词 | rank-growing |
释义 | > as lemmasrank-growing rank-growing adj. ΚΠ 1668 R. Howard Great Favourite i. i. 7 I will sow Jealousie in every breast, 'Tis a Rank growing weed, and will choak up All that shou'd spring of Love, or Confidence. 1771 D. Henry Compl. Eng. Farmer ii. i. 212 As often therefore as a quantity of rank growing weeds are ploughed into the earth, so often you may be said to give it a fresh dressing. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 248/2 Cow-peas, or any other rank-growing green crop, is as useful to Southern clay as to Northern. 1969 D. F. Costello Prairie World iii. 57 The moisture-loving vegetation consists mainly of rank-growing grasses such as smooth cordgrass. < as lemmas |
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