| 单词 | vegetable power |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvegetable power ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > [noun] > principle of vegetable life vegetable power1601 1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 68 The vegetable power [Fr. l'ame vegetable] common to men and plants. 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. ii. 29 The state of the nourishing or vegetable power ouer the whole bodie. 1713 M. Stringer Opera Mineralia Explicata i. 8 'Tis highly probable they have a Vegetable Power. 1798 W. Tucker Predestination Let. ix. 66 Thus vegetable power, or the power of vegetation, depends on the united and efficacious agency of light, heat [etc.]. 1894 J. E. Walker Voices Stars 161 The rate of ascent of the sap is regulated, on the one hand, by the upward pressure of the vegetable power, and, on the other, by the amount of the gravity of the fluid. < as lemmas |
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