单词 | magnanerie |
释义 | magnanerien. A silkworm house. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or breeding other animals > [noun] > keeping silkworms > place for rearing silkworms magnanerie1835 cocoonery1839 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 231 The nursery for breeding the worms is called magnaniere [sic]. 1887 Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 59/2 Small educations reared apart from the ordinary magnanerie, for the production of graine alone, were recommended. 1888 E. A. Butler Silkworms iv. 61 This method..would be an altogether inapplicable mode of procedure in connection with a large magnanery. 1966 K. White Lett. from Gourgounel 22 A stone magnanerie, or silkworm-house. 1969 V. Nabokov Ada ii. vii. 404 The magnanery would be a violarium, full of fascinating flowering plants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。