| 单词 | artificial mother |
| 释义 | > as lemmasartificial mother 16. In full artificial mother. An artificial brooder for young poultry. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > poultry-rearing equipment nest-egg1579 mother1807 brood-basket1848 incubator1857 crammer1887 foster-mother1907 1807 Trans. Soc. Arts 25 25 Artificial mothers for the chickens to run under. 1830 ‘B. Moubray’ Domest. Poultry (ed. 6) 48 An artificial mother cannot be dispensed with, under which the chickens may brood and shelter. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 618/2 Mother, the hen-mother at Baker's Cresshill poultry farm is of hollow zinc, filled with hot water. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 14 Nov. 8/3 Incubators, and poultry ‘mothers’. 1909 L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Agric. III. 543/2 For this purpose an artificial mother is provided, commonly called a brooder. < as lemmas |
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