单词 | hand-pollinate |
释义 | > as lemmashand-pollinate hand-pollinate v. transitive to pollinate (a flower, crop, etc.) by hand. ΚΠ 1891 Iowa Agric. Exper. Station Bull. No. 13. 91 From a trial made on planting corn in an isolated part of the field, removing the tassels and hand pollinating the ears without covering, better results were obtained. 1918 Nature 15 Aug. 470/2 To hand-pollinate the flowers of a soft-shelled tree with pollen from a tree of similar character. 2011 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 10 Sept. f10 As the vines bloomed, he hand-pollinated several blossoms, then determined which of the baby pumpkins might aspire to the big leagues. < as lemmas |
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