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单词 orange box
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orange box
orange box n. a wooden box used to carry (formerly also: †in which to cultivate) oranges.
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1825 C. MacIntosh in J. C. Loudon Gardener's Mag. (1826) I. i. 139 The model of the orange boxes..I have also sent... You can..take them to pieces and examine the roots of the trees, remove old, and replace by fresh mould, prune the roots, [etc.].
1850 Internat. Mag. July 134/1 I begged her to sit down at once on an orange-box over which was thrown a Syrian mat.
1974 S. Clapham Greenhouse Bk. viii. 60 Pots or boxes should be..large enough, with perfect drainage: wooden orange boxes are ideal.
2001 J. Boyle Galloway Street 154 But the wood Mary has turns out to be old orange boxes and packing cases,..all knotty and twisted with damp.
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