单词 | safener |
释义 | safenern. Agriculture and Horticulture. A substance which protects plants from damage caused by an insecticide or herbicide. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > protectant or safener medication1626 medicating1707 protectant1876 wash1921 safener1933 1933 Proc. 29th Ann. Meeting Washington State Hort. Assoc. 39 The cover sprays on most plots..were mainly non-lead arsenicals in combination with oils, spreaders, or so-called arsenical injury ‘correctives’ or ‘safeners’. 1950 J. C. Walker Plant Pathol. xvi. 647 Glyceride oils are..good safeners for copper sprays. 1993 R. L. Zimdahl Fund. Weed Sci. xii. 261 Butylate is the only carbamothioate herbicide selective in corn without a safener. 2003 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 14 May 3 He suggested growers source Adjust (chlormequat chloride) as it has a built-in safener which can reduce crop scorch. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1933 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。