单词 | autumn-born |
释义 | > as lemmasautumn-born C4. With participles forming adjectives, with the sense ‘in the autumn, during the autumn’, as autumn-flowering, autumn-fruiting, autumn-ripening; autumn-born, autumn-planted, autumn-sown, etc. ΚΠ 1765 Museum Rusticum 4 l. 227 The winter frosts will have broke down the clods on to the roots of the autumn-sown rye. 1767 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (ed. 2) 179 (heading) Autumn flowering bulbs. 1838 Cultivator Apr. 44/1 What would be beneficial for an autumn-ripening, or hoed crop, would be prejudicial to a..summer-ripening crop. 1850 Gardeners' Mag. Bot. 1 106 The superiority of autumn-planted trees over those planted at any other time. 1896 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening 86 Crocus... Plant..autumn-flowering species in Aug. & Sept. 1946 Nature 10 Aug. 203/1 The autumn-born calves were out on grass. a1979 B. D'J. Pancake Trilobites (1992) 82 An autumn-blooming flower hung limply on its stem. 1992 W. T. Parsons & E. G. Cuthbertson Noxious Weeds Austral. 374/2 The perennating rootstocks and autumn-germinated seed form small overwintering rosettes. 2005 Grow your Own Dec. 30/1 Autumn-fruiting raspberries will produce fruit on the current season's growth. < as lemmas |
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