| 单词 | root fibre |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroot fibre root fibre n. ΚΠ 1698 L. Milbourne Notes Dryden's Virgil 168 The Ground must be..carefully stirr'd, to mellow the soil, and to give the Root-Fibres liberty. 1789 J. Abercrombie Compl. Kitchen Gardener 211 All the varieties of potatoes in their growth produce numerous spreading root fibres, to which are attached many knobbed tubers. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 779 It is quite necessary that the sets have formed root-fibres at the bottoms before they are removed. 1882 J. Scott & J. C. Morton Soil of Farm iii. 18 If we exclude living roots and root fibres, there is, even in the oldest pasture-land, no great quantity of organic matter. 1995 D. Donoghue Walter Pater x. 116 We have seen how definite was the leading motive of that culture; how, like some central root-fibre, it maintained the well-rounded unity of his life through a thousand distractions. 2008 G. E. Wickens Baobabs vii. 123 In Senegal the children of the Tenda make hoops from baobab root fibres to use as targets. < as lemmas |
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