单词 | landrace |
释义 | landracen. A large white pig of the variety so called, originally developed in Denmark, subsequently used elsewhere to produce bacon. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > specific breeds purr?1577 Hampshirea1661 Shropshire1768 tun-back1776 Berkshire1810 Suffolk1831 China hog1838 Essex pig1838 Narragansett1852 Cumberland1860 Neapolitan1860 Tamworth1860 hazel splitter1866 Poland China1869 Duroc1872 Large Black1906 Lincolnshire Curly-Coat1917 saddleback1919 landrace1935 micropig1985 1935 G. W. Layley & W. J. Malden Evol. Brit. Pig 98 (heading) Landrace. The modern model. 1935 G. W. Layley & W. J. Malden Evol. Brit. Pig 98 The Danish Landrace..is the model set up to which it is the ambition of our state to mould all British pigs. 1937 G. R. H. Bishop Improvem. Bacon Pigs ii. 27 The contented Landrace sows were hardy and prolific. 1948 H. R. Davidson Production & Marketing Pigs ix. 126 There [i.e. in Denmark], in 1895, were set up the first breeding centres to maintain and improve the breed type of the native Landrace. 1958 ‘R. Crompton’ William's Television Show viii. 253 ‘A Landrace pedigree, that pig is,’ said the farmer. 1971 Country Life 2 Dec. 1588/1 Our breeders [of pigs]..readily accept Large White, Landrace, or crosses of these breeds. Draft additions February 2005 gen. A locally developed breed of livestock or variety of a cereal or other crop plant. ΚΠ 1939 A. L. Hagedoorn Animal Breeding x. 79 In ducks we have two native land-races in Holland, the flying ducks around the town of Akkrum in Friesland and the small black ducks of the county of North Holland. 1954 Jrnl. Ecol. 42 551 In land races, or local populations of cereals, wide variation in such ear characteristics..is common within a population. 1984 Euphytica 33 563 Sixteen durum wheat landraces, i.e., 6 from Algeria, 5 from Ethiopia and 5 from Italy were analyzed. 1993 Ont. Beef Farmer Sept. 24/2 (advt.) During the 1800's systematic breeding was used to improve the local Keltic-German Landrace cattle found in the Franconian district of Northern Bavaria. 2000 Univ. Oxf. Bot. Garden News Winter 5/1 These less pure land-races are also an invaluable source of future breeding material for the development of new varieties. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1935 |
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