单词 | rooting ground |
释义 | > as lemmasrooting ground General attributive (in sense 2), as rooting ground, rooting medium, rooting place. ΚΠ 1747 Biographia Britannica I. 1021 As for the length of the stalks, that might be owing to the distance of the owzy bottom, or other lodging and rooting-places. 1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 451 In this way, in good rooting-ground, he would have roots sixteen or seventeen feet long. 1854 Zoologist 12 4445 If all the seed that fell should find no rooting-place. 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Air layering The process is specified as pot layering when the rooting medium is enclosed, as in a pot or box. 2000 Halifax Daily News (Nova Scotia) (Nexis) 20 Feb. 6 A jolly blue sandbox, now a rooting place for weeds, hints of the happy families who once lived here. < as lemmas |
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