| 单词 | seed stock |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseed stock seed stock n. (a) a stock (stock n.1 4) used in grafting that is grown from seed (obsolete rare); (b) a supply or store of seeds, plants, animals, etc., which are used for propagation, breeding, or the production of seed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > place where graft inserted clefta1398 stockc1400 grafting1601 seed stock1702 crown graft1706 graft1802 root graft1824 saddle graft1830 rind-graft1907 1702 T. Tryon Way to get Wealth 71 In August take the Advantage of the beginning to Bud Orange Trees, but let the Seed Stock you Inoculate, be between 3 and 4 years Growth. 1817 Repertory of Arts 2nd Ser. 26 109 The principal cause of the curl in the potatoe, is the over-ripening of the seed-stock for the supply of the ensuing year. 1854 Pennsylvania Farm Jrnl. Sept. 284/2 The levying of a suitable tax on all male stock that are kept to breed from, would be the means of removing our scrubby animals, and bringing in their places, good seed stock of superior breeds. 1878 Trans. Minnesota Hort. Soc. 65 The roots of all biennials that are planted for seed crop are called seed stock. 1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm xviii. 191 The combined exertions of individuals, research institutes, seeds houses and other bodies concerned with the standard of seed stocks distributed to the farmer, are all directed to the principal objective of improving the efficiency of crop husbandry. 1993 Ont. Beef Farmer Sept. 18/2 (advt.) Rugged Cattle for the Real World since 1952. Seedstock Raised Under Natural Conditions. 2013 Atlantic Dec. 87/2 She got to work on creating a ‘seed stock’ of modified viruses that could be used to produce hundreds of millions of vaccine doses. < as lemmas |
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