单词 | back-flash |
释义 | > as lemmasback-flash back-flash n. Brit. , U.S. the act or process of flashing back (Webster, 1934); spec. (a) Forestry (see quot. 1957); (b) = flashback n. 2.ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > movement of poison through plant back-flash1957 the mind > mental capacity > memory > retrospection, reminiscence > [noun] > instance of > in visual form flashback1916 back-flash1957 1957 Cook & Welch in Jrnl. Forestry 55 265/1 ‘Backflash’—the sickening or sudden death, for no apparent reason, of untreated trees in a stand where chemi-peeling has been done. 1958 New Statesman 1 Feb. 144/3 Spiro's ruinous past is displayed in a series of back-flashes. 1960 Ecology 41 56/2 Backflash is the movement of poison, through root grafts, from poisoned trees to unpoisoned trees. 1963 in Brown & Foote Early English & Norse Studies 133 These disorderly and almost randomly presented backflashes [in Beowulf] fed to the audience are..truly confusing to a person not saturated with the material. < as lemmas |
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