单词 | smother crop |
释义 | smother cropn. A crop which is grown to suppress weeds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > other crops fleece1513 white crop1743 green crop1744 root crop1772 row crop1776 robber1777 mix-grass1778 breaking-crop1808 industrial crop1818 foliage crop1831 kharifa1836 scourge-crop1842 overcrop1858 by-crop1880 coppice-with-standards1882 sewage grass1888 trap-crop1899 cleaning crop1900 nurse crop1907 cover crop1909 smother crop1920 stoop crop1928 snatch crop1937 break crop1967 wholecrop1968 1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land iii. 51 When a smother crop is grown it is of course necessary that the crop seed should be free from weed seed. 1937 A. F. Hill Econ. Bot. xv. 336 Barley is also used for hay and pasturage and as a smother crop to kill out weeds. 1973 P. A. Colinvaux Introd. Ecol. xxi. 303 Barley is known as a ‘smother crop’ because it keeps down weeds in the field. This it does with root secretions, weed killers of its own. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1920 |
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