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单词 tender annual
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tender annual
b. Of animals or plants: Delicate, easily injured by severe weather or unfavourable conditions; not hardy; needing protection. tender annual, an annual plant needing the protection of a greenhouse all through its life; cf. hardy annual n. at hardy adj. and n.1 Compounds 2; tender plant (figurative), something needing careful nurture if it is to survive and develop.
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the world > animals > animal body > [adjective] > delicate
tender1614
the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [adjective] > hardy or not hardy
tender1614
hardy1629
sturdy1695
nicec1710
tenderish1798
half-hardy1818
ironclad1871
the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > annual
annual1633
hardy annual1706
tender annual1769
winter annual1857
semi-annual1882
therophyte1913
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry (1668) vii. xvii. 121 Turkies when they are young are very tender to bring up.
1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 55 The May-Cherries are tender, the Trees must be set in a warme place.
1769 J. Rutter & D. Carter Mod. Eden (new ed.) ii. iv. 218 (heading) Of raising tender annuals on hot-beds.
1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. Note xiv. 27 The bulbs..are found in the perennial herbaceous plants which are too tender to bear the cold of the winter.
1798 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 2) xii. 157 Fig trees will generally survive hard winters, when in standards,..though shoots trained to a wall are tenderer.
1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening iii. ii. 1070 The green-house is now filled with tender annuals.
1867 T. Bridgeman Amer. Gardener's Assistant iii. 21 Varieties from warm climates..may with great propriety be treated as tender annuals, by sowing the seed every spring.
1933 Discovery Mar. 76/2 The runner bean..of Mexican parentage or origin is here grown as a tender annual.
1969 Times 10 Mar. 10/7 These capital sources are conditioned by..the confidence felt in the future profitability of agriculture. That confidence is, at present, rather a tender plant.
1974 J. Warren Macself's Amateur Greenhouse (ed. 5) viii. 238 The tender annuals of all kinds should be sown in spring rather than autumn.
1978 U.S. News & World Rep. 12 June 56/1 Academic and cultural freedom is a very tender plant, which this country has nurtured very effectively.
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