| 单词 | rogue pea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrogue pea rogue pea n. now rare a variety of pea; (now) esp. one arising spontaneously that differs form the parental type. ΚΠ 1707 London Gaz. No. 4357/4 At Ham..are to be sold, Garden Beans, Gosport-Beans, Rogue-Pease, and Hotspur-Pease. 1744 D. Hilman Tusser's Five Hundred Points Husb. 3 The most forward Pea is the Rogue, they are pick'd from the Hasting and Hotspur, and are of late had in great Reputation.] 1916 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 89 174 We described the genetic behaviour of the peculiar wild-looking, ‘rogue’ peas which appear as the offspring of the cultivated type. 1917 Jrnl. Agric. Sci. 8 475 Sugar peas and rogue peas can also become badly diseased when grown on infected land. 1949 C. D. Darlington & K. Mather Elements of Genetics ii. ix.182 The rogue pea appears in most garden varieties, and has more pointed leaves and more curved pods than the type of the variety. < as lemmas |
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