单词 | kharif |
释义 | kharifn. 1. In India, the autumn crop, sown at the beginning of the summer rains. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > other crops fleece1513 white crop1743 green crop1744 root crop1772 row crop1776 robber1777 mix-grass1778 breaking-crop1808 industrial crop1818 foliage crop1831 kharifa1836 scourge-crop1842 overcrop1858 by-crop1880 coppice-with-standards1882 sewage grass1888 trap-crop1899 cleaning crop1900 nurse crop1907 cover crop1909 smother crop1920 stoop crop1928 snatch crop1937 break crop1967 wholecrop1968 a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXIII. 785/1 [Hindustan's] harvests..are equally profitable both in Spring (rabí) and Autumn (kharíf). 1882 W. W. Hunter Indian Empire 385 The kharíf or autumn harvest. 1886 A. H. Church Food-grains of India 99 Where indigo is grown in the kharif, barley is its usual accompaniment in the rabi. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 610/2 The kharif, or autumn crops, sown in June and reaped in October or November. 1969 Pioneer (Lucknow) 13 Aug. 2/3 There has been no kharif sowing in about 2,000 villages in Western Rajasthan due to failure of monsoon this year, according to official sources here. 1975 Bangladesh Observer 22 July 5/4 In spite of improved irrigation facilities most areas of India are dependent on rainfall for cultivation. Timely and adequate rainfall is essential for good kharif crops. 2. Also khareef. The rainy season in the Sudan. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wet weather > [noun] > rainy season (tropical) rains1615 rainy season1655 long rains1670 season1707 monsoon1747 high season1759 plum rains1894 wet1897 bai-u1910 kharif1920 1920 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 668/1 The gazelle here do not drink from khareef to khareef, a period of very nearly ten months. 1951 R. A. Hodgkin Sudan Geogr. ii. 10 If we plant a grass seed and a tree seed at the beginning of the kharif in a semi-desert they will both start to grow during the months of rain. 1951 R. A. Hodgkin Sudan Geogr. vi. 61 If there is..enough rain during..the kharif, there will be a good crop. 1961 L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 280/1 Kharif, applied to the rainy season in the northern Sudan. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.a1836 |
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