| 单词 | seed-plant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasseed-plant seed-plant n. (a) a seedling; a plant grown from a seed; (b) a plant grown for its seed or for propagation; (c) [after German Samenpflanze (1873 in the passage translated in quot. 1875)] a seed-bearing (as opposed to spore-bearing) plant; = spermatophyte n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > young or immature plant(s) > seedling or sporeling nurse-plant1601 seedling1608 seed-plant1653 germinant1886 sporeling1910 the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [noun] > cultivated or planted > grown for its foliage or seed small seed1793 foliage plant1862 seed-plant1878 1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 45 Be sure to transplant all young seed-Plants, for by that meanes they get good Roots. 1735 B. Martin Philos. Gram. iv. iv. 247 When the Seed is sown, the Parts of the Seed Plant, now in Embryo, begin to vegetate, unfold, dilate, and at last burst the Matrix-Seed. 1753 Country Gentleman's Compan. II. 145 Pull up your Seed-Plants, when the Seed is full grown and coloured in the Husks, and let them stand in the Green-House till the Pods are dry. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. ii. 338 A transition to Phanerogams,—from Spore-plants to Seed-plants [Ger. Samenpflanzen]. 1878 J. Inglis Sport & Work xvi. 187 The planters advance about four rupees a beegah to the ryot, who cuts his seed-plant, and brings it into the factory threshing ground. 1929 O. Olson Cigar-tobacco Production Pennsylvania (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1580) 18 Growers are paying more and more attention to systematic selection of seed plants, based on uniformity of type, resistance to disease, and other desirable features. 1976 Financial Times 28 Jan. 2/7 A splendid seed plant which will actually flower this autumn if you sow the seed in a box in mid-February and keep it in a warm room. 2009 J. Silvertown Orchard Invisible ii. 11 The earliest seed plants found in the fossil record appeared in the Devonian period about 360 million years ago. < as lemmas |
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