| 单词 | summer-born |
| 释义 | > as lemmassummer-born (c) Modifying adjectives (chiefly present participles) relating to a stage in the development of a plant or animal, with the sense ‘in or during the summer’, as summer-born, summer-flowering, summer-ripening, etc., adjs. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iv. 160 Lest the base earth Should..Disdaine to roote the Sommer-swelling flowre. View more context for this quotation 1744 J. Gee Impartial Enq. Woollen Manufactories Great-Brit. (new ed.) 77 Summer born Insects dye at the approach of Winter. 1778 J. Abercrombie Universal Gardener & Botanist at Adonis Summer flowering yellow annual Adonis. 1839 J. Buel Farmer's Compan. v. 44 They are cropped with small grains or summer-ripening crops. 1897 E. L. Voynich Gadfly (U.S. ed.) i. i. 5 In one corner stood a huge summer-flowering magnolia. 1972 Trout & Salmon Feb. 10/2 Clearly the nets are taking an excessive proportion of summer-running salmon. 1975 Lang. for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xviii. 267 Those summer-born children who may have had only two years of early schooling. 2016 San Bernardino (Calif.) Sun (Nexis) 2 Apr. Seedling trees are highly variable in the way they grow, but their summer-ripening fruits are similar. < as lemmas |
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