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单词 provine
释义

provinev.

Forms: late Middle English prouyne, 1500s prouine, 1600s–1800s provine.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French provigner, provignier.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman provigner and Middle French provignier (11th cent. in Old French in Rashi as provainier ; French provigner ) < provain young shoot, slip, or layer (c1225 in Old French; French provin ) < classical Latin propāgin- , propāgō (see propagate v.).In quot. a1475 perhaps showing confusion of Middle French provignier with prooignier (see prune v.2). N.E.D. (1909) gives the pronunciation as (provəi·n) /prəʊˈvaɪn/.
Obsolete.
intransitive and transitive. To propagate (a plant, esp. a vine) by layering.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > propagate [verb (transitive)] > layer
pleacha1398
provine?1440
lay1565
layer1845
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xii. 31 (MED) Now vynys sette in placis hoot & drie, Now also to prouyne is not the werst [L. propago iure ducetur]; Yong vyne, & plauntis vmbideluyng hie.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 244 Many a thyng..Mot be prouyned & kut a-way And yshape of newe entaylle.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 198 This was not the right Cinnamon-tree, but..'twas impossible to make it provine.
1772 L. de Saint Pierre Art of planting & cultivating Vine 109 Others have what they term mother-stocks, which they allow to put forth shoots, and so provine or propagate them on all sides.
1866 C. Fleming & J. Tibbins French Dict. II. 844/1 Provigner, to provine, to lay a branch of a vine in the ground to take root, to layer.

Derivatives

provining n. Obsolete the action of provine v.; the process of propagating a plant by layering.
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1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum i. xii. 14 The father and mother sendeth them out in couples as it were by prouining or propagation. [Margin] Prouining or propagation is when a man layeth a branch of a..tree into the ground, so that it taketh roote of it selfe.
1677 E. Coles Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Provining.., laying a branch (of a vine, &c.) to take root.
1866 C. Fleming & J. Tibbins French Dict. II. 844/1 Provignement,..provining.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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