单词 | garigue |
释义 | gariguegarriguen. In the south of France, uncultivated land of a calcareous soil overgrown with low scrub; also, the vegetation found on such land. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > vegetation characteristic of particular regions or habitats jungle1816 pindan1888 garigue1896 savannah1903 the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > specific never-never1833 Never-Never Country1859 never-never land1875 marismas1884 Neverland1892 garigue1896 bled1930 1896 Smithsonian Rep. 414 Uncultivated lands, there called the garrigues. 1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. iii. v. 516 Such waste tracts, in South France termed ‘garigues’, usually occur only on calcareous soil. 1914 A. G. Tansley in H. S. Thompson Flowering Plants of Riviera 6 In rocky places where the pines are not well developed or are absent altogether the limestone scrub is very open, and there is much bare rock between the shrubs. This type of vegetation is called garigue. 1922 19th Cent. Sept. 429 The short-toed lark..was found mainly on the garrigues—high, chalky downlands, planted with the universal vines. 1963 G. Bellairs Death in Wasteland iv. 46 Part of it is garrigue, rocky uncultivated wasteland covered in prickly oaks. 1965 O. Polunin & A. J. Huxley Flowers of Mediterranean 11 Extensive areas of the hottest and driest terrain are covered with garigue. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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