| 单词 | potato failure |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato failure potato failure n. the failure of a potato crop; cf. potato famine n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [noun] > scarcity of food or famine > of specific food or crop potato failure1845 potato famine1846 Great Famine1849 Great Hunger1910 1845 E. S. Cayley Lett. to Ld. John Russell (1846) i. 9 The deficiency caused by the potato failure will be in some measure compensated by the unusually large crops of oats, barley, and beans. 1915 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 2 436 If the tuber-bearing stolons are the seat of injury, the food supply is cut off from the young tubers and there may result ‘little potato’, a form of the disease which Rolfs ('04) has found to be an important cause of the potato failures in Colorado. 1978 R. Mitchison Life in Scotl. vi. 112 If we compare the state of crofting families—sustained, in squalid poverty, through the potato failure of 1846 by their landowners—with the hardships of the..urban poor..in the early 1840's [etc.]. 2004 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 12 Mar. e1 The Great Hunger, the devastating potato failure that left more than a million Irish dead between 1845 and 1850, and propelled another million into exile. < as lemmas |
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