| 单词 | soil bank |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoil bank soil bank n. (a) land taken out of use for agricultural production (? temporary); (b) the soil as a continuing store of seeds, pathogens, nutrients, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [noun] > soil as source of growth glebea1387 soilc1400 soil bank1955 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > fallow land faugha1325 lea-landc1325 crestc1440 white land1459 fallow1523 hade?1523 rest-field1578 brise1600 summertilth1622 ardera1642 naked fallow1684 soil bank1955 1955 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Nov. 8/2 ‘Soil bank’ is the current farm bloc slang for a scheme by which farmers are paid by the Government for taking acreage out of the production of surplus crops. 1958 J. K. Galbraith Affluent Society xx. 221 Wherever possible euphemisms were employed—as this is written, instead of taking acres out of production they are being put into a soil bank. 1977 J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants iv. 95 In a sense there is a circular argument here; species which have pioneered the succession are strongly persistent in the soil-bank and so appear as pioneer species in the next succession on the area. Do they persist because they are pioneers or do they become pioneers because they have persisted. < as lemmas |
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