单词 | marcottage |
释义 | marcottagen. Horticulture. A method of propagation of woody plants in which a wound made in the bark of a shoot is covered with a layer of rooting medium and wrapped to retain moisture, encouraging new roots to form before the shoot is severed from the parent plant. Also called air layering, Chinese layering. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > marcottage marcottage1926 marcotting1926 1926 F. M. Esguerra in Philippine Agric. 15 63 Marcottage is the term applied to the process of reproduction by which a branch of a plant is ‘girdled’ and wrapped with soil or other media in order to induce rooting while still attached to the mother plant. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. v. 97 In marcottage..the soil is brought to the stem and not the reverse as in layering. 1959 H. T. Hartmann & D. E. Kester Plant Propagation xiv. 406 The ancient Chinese gootee or marcottage method consists of plastering a ball of clay or other soil mixture about the ring or girdle, which is then covered with moss or fiber. 1987 HortScience 22 498 During the season of heaviest natural bloom, marcottage increased the number of inflorescences formed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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