| 单词 | seed year |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseed year seed year n. (a) the first year of growth of a plant from a seed (now rare); (b) a year of growth in which a particular plant or crop produces a (plentiful) crop of seeds. ΚΠ 1721 R. Bradley Gen. Treat. Husbandry & Gardening II. 71 If a Plant in the Seed Year weigh'd two Ounces, the same plant if it is in Health this second Year, will weight about a Dram more than four Ounces. 1735 P. Collinson Let. 16 Aug. in W. Darlington Memorials J. Bartram & H. Marshall (1849) 70 I hope this will prove a good seed year, that thee may be able to send a cargo which will produce some money here. 1844 W. Shaw & C. W. Johnson tr. A. D. Thaër Princ. Agric. II. 523 According to the early time of the sowing,..we may obtain two, three, or even four plentiful green-crops from it, even in the seed-year itself. 1889 W. Schlich Man. Forestry I. ii. ii. 173 The quantity of seed is governed by two things:—(1.) The average yield of each seed-year; and (2.) The frequency of seed-years. 1907 Nature 4 Apr. 546/1 The observed correlations between the crop and the weather of the seed year as well as that of the harvest year. 1960 Times 10 Dec. 7/7 Not every year is a good seed year; some species produce seed in bulk only at intervals. 2005 O. Heikkinen in M. Seppälä Physical Geogr. Fennoscandia (2008) ix. 195/2 Regeneration of the forest is slow and unsure owing to the rarity of seed years. < as lemmas |
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