| 单词 | vertical farm |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvertical farm vertical farm n. (a) a farm on a steep incline, such as a hill or mountainside (now somewhat rare); (b) a building or other structure in which crops for human consumption are grown commercially in multiple layers or levels, often with the help of artificially controlled lighting and nutrients.With sense (b) cf. the following, with reference to an imagined structure in a future society: 1923 San Antonio (Texas) Evening News 31 Jan. 1/3 The artist who produced this pictorial forecast of San Antonio in 1973 said that he wanted to get in an outline of one of the vertical farms expected to be in use at that period. These farms will be constructed like giant silos, miles in height, and will have vegetables growing upon the circular sides. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > other farms home farm1749 city farm1750 county farm1785 factory farm1824 bird farm1842 provision farm1846 spade-farm1848 bush-farm1851 poor farm1852 sewage farm1870 cacao farm1871 mixed farm1872 vertical farm1897 prison farm1961 nuplex1968 1897 Tyrone (Pa.) Daily Herald 20 July William Neill, nursery agent, trudged down the road to Jake Peters' vertical farm just east of town. 1988 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 4 Mar. Vertical farms were hacked out of the fertile mountainsides, and they have lasted for hundreds of years. 2000 Province (Vancouver) 1 Jan. b15/2 Ogden says the Lower Mainland [of British Columbia] population will continue to increase—especially when 'vertical farms' (controlled cinder-block growing centres that will provide crops year-round) free up agriculture land for housing. 2019 New Yorker 15 Apr. 54/1 The farms most amenable to automation are indoor ones—both greenhouses and the newer vertical farms that have begun to appear in urban areas in recent years. < as lemmas |
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