单词 | soil sickness |
释义 | > as lemmassoil sickness soil sickness n. a condition of soil in which it has become unable to support the healthy growth of a crop. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > land exhaustion skinning1888 soil exhaustion1920 soil deficiency1925 soil sickness1934 desertization1968 desertification1974 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Soil sickness. 1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 111/1 Among more recent concepts is that of the possibility of beneficial root-excretions, to which the older view ascribed toxic properties and the responsibility for soil-sickness. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 9 Feb. 97/1 We have long been familiar with the potato root and sugar-beet eelworm..but other types are now known to cause ‘soil sickness’. < as lemmas |
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