单词 | self-sowed |
释义 | self-sowedadj. Botany. Of a plant, seed, etc.: sown without human involvement. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [adjective] > wild or not cultivated wildc725 untameda1340 unsownc1374 unplanteda1382 savagea1500 natural1526 self-sowed1597 self-sown1608 maiden1616 voluntary1620 spontaneous1665 uncultivated1697 wilding1697 volunteer1794 uncultured1804 agrarian1851 self-raised1852 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 67 Wall Barly, Way Barly, or after old English writers, Way Bennet... Very well resembling selfe sowed Barly. 1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 300 In the middle of January, I had self-sowed marigolds and violets in bloom. 1789 J. Abercrombie Compl. Kitchen Gardener 144 From the scattered self-sowed seeds, many young plants will rise naturally in the spring. 1863 Amer. Agriculturist Apr. 106/2 Many of our Wisconsin farmers have observed in the Spring..quite a thick growth of self-sowed wheat. 1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 37/2 Fields of hyacinth and self-sowed daffodils. 1963 Defiance (Ohio) Crescent-News 3 Sept. 7/2 The stalk of the self-sowed sunflower is nine feet high. 1993 V. I. Shopova tr. N. Donchev in tr. D. Djumalieva & A. Vassilev Cropping Syst. & Intensive Agric. ii. 14 The area must be kept free of self-sowed seeds and weeds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1597 |
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