单词 | seed bag |
释义 | > as lemmasseed bag seed bag n. (a) a part of a plant or fungus which contains seed or spores (now rare); (also) †a receptacle for the eggs or larvae of an animal (obsolete); (b) (in the drilling of an oil well) a tubular leather container fastened around a pipe and filled with flax seeds which swell to form a seal against the ingress of water (now historical). ΚΠ 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 132 The other..seem'd full of exceeding small white seeds, much like the seed-bagg in the knop of a Carnation, after the flowers have been two or three days, or a week, fallen off. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 136 Whether they be matrices or seed-baggs of any kind of Fishes, or some kind of watry Insect. 1742 J. Martyn tr. W. Harris Treat. Acute Dis. Infants 171 A Sort of Cluster, or Seed-Bag of the Spawn of Worms. 1832 Gardener's Mag. 8 739 The peridium, or seed bag, is formed beneath the epidermis of a leaf. 1860 Country Gentleman 1 Mar. 148/2 The bee has the will and power to contract her seed bag or not. 1862 Board Arts & Manufactures Jrnl. 2 61/2 Around one end [of the pipe] was wrapped another seed bag. 1865 G. W. Gesner A. Gesner's Pract. Treat. Coal (ed. 2) ii. 32 To prevent communication between any particular portion of the well and the pumping tube, a bag of linseed, called a ‘seed bag’, is sent down to the required place. This bag, encircling the tube, soon swells.., and forms a water-tight joint. 1906 H. F. Jones Plant Life 28 When ripe, the seed-bag opens at the end and splits into three portions. 1959 H. F. Williamson & A. R. Daum Amer. Petroleum Industry: Age Illumination 1859–1899 vii. 149 Further refinements of the third progressive step in permanent casing abolished both the seed bag and the leather packer. 2000 Bothalia 30 37/1 Fruit a hygrochastic capsule,..seed bags absent. < as lemmas |
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