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单词 second growth
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second growth
second growth n. (a) a crop of vegetation replacing one previously destroyed; also attributive; (b) the second category of growths (see growth n.1 1d) or qualities into which wines are divided; also attributive.
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second growth1829
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > aftercrop > second growth or fire-growth
regrowth1741
fireweed1764
second growth1829
burnt feed1848
1824 A. Henderson Hist. Wines ii. ii. 155 Among the secondary growths, those of Cramant, Avise, Oger, and Menil, are the most deserving of mention.]
1829 J. F. Cooper Wept of Wish-ton-wish I. ii. 26 Much of the surface of this opening..was now concealed by bushes of what is termed the second growth.
1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines v. 110 The best wines are from the noirien grape, and the best of the first growths fetch sixty-six francs, and of the second growths forty-four francs.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 463/1 To the second and third growths the red wines of Roussillon, Bene Carlo from Spain, and brandy are added.
1864 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons (ed. 2) iv. 94 Tracts of second-growth woods.
1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xliv. 327 With all her fearlessness as a horse-woman, she did not quite relish the idea of his bursting away through the low-branching second-growth to follow the pack.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 605/2 If..a first growth is vintaged a little too late and does not succeed so well as some second growths.
1920 G. Saintsbury Notes on Cellar-bk. iv. 53 It was customary..to lay down..hogsheads of the best reputed first or second growths.
1980 P. Ableman Shoestring's Finest Hour ii. 31 An admirable roast beef en croute..cheered down by a second-growth Pomerol of an excellent year.
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