| 单词 | soil robber |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoil robber b. Agriculture. A crop or other plant which impoverishes the soil; (also) a farmer whose practices impoverish the soil. Also soil robber. 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 1777 Farmer's Mag. Oct. 325 A hay crop, even where it consists..of ray grass, is not a robber, provided it be cut before the seed is formed. 1905 S. T. Maynard Successful Fruit Culture xvi. 175 Many brush pastures, by a little thinning out of ‘robber’ plants, treated in the above manner, may be made a source of considerable income. 1910 Science 21 Oct. 532/1 It is becoming common to term the farmer, and especially those who are farming in a large way ‘soil robbers’. 1995 N. Hudson Soil Conservation (ed. 3) xi. 262 In the 1970s it was topical to classify crops as soil-depleting and soil-conserving , and to speak of soil robbers or soil builders. < as lemmas |
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