单词 | seeding season |
释义 | > as lemmasseeding season seeding season n. the time or season for sowing seed; (also) the time or season in which seed (in various senses) is produced. ΚΠ ?1695 T. Worden Leper, & Leper's House, Cleansed viii. 64 A Minister's sleepy Season is the Devil's seeding Season; whiles the Minister snores in his Sleep, then is the Devil's Season to sow his Seed. ?1788 J. Abercrombie Gen. Syst. Trees & Shrubs 124/2 Large plantations of the trees are cultivated for the leaves, with which to supply them [sc. silkworms] daily, in their seeding season. 1840 Niles' National Reg. 19 Sept. 33/1 Heavy rains during the seeding season had prevented the usual quantity [of wheat] being sown. 1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. ii. 38 He was taking them home to his sister Faith, who prized the lingering blossoms of the seeding season. 1919 Landscape Archit. Apr. 148 The grass seeding-season is from the time the ground gets warm enough in the spring until it gets too cold in the autumn to start the germination process. 1991 Times 8 May 7/4 The Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Naturalists' Trust is paying for a warden to guard the site during the flowering and seeding season. 2007 High Plains Expansion Project: Final Environmental Impact Statement (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Office of Energy Projects) App. C 12 Perform seeding of permanent vegetation at the beginning of the next recommended seeding season. < as lemmas |
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