单词 | self-planted |
释义 | > as lemmasself-planted self-planted adj. Brit. /ˌsɛlfˈplɑːntᵻd/ , /ˌsɛlfˈplantᵻd/ , U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈplæn(t)əd/ (of a plant, garden, etc.) that has grown from seeds dispersed without human involvement.ΚΠ 1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 120 So much more sweet, and fruitful, do these self-planted Country Crabs, and Wildings, now seem to many, than those Trees of Paradise. 1792 Lett. & Papers Agric. (Bath & West of Eng. Soc.) VI. 272 The same person marks for reserves any self-planted trees he can find in the coppices and hedgerows. 1874 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 3 215 Elms, sycamores, beeches, and limes..are not to be found in the few shreds of the old self-planted woods that remain. 1962 Jrnl. Ecol. 50 25 Amongst these old trees many recently self-planted seedlings are growing but there are no plants of a few years old. 2015 T. Rainer & C. West Planting in Post-wild World 43 A wild plant is self-planted. It was grown either by seed dispersed from a nearby plant or vegetatively through an adjacent plant. < as lemmas |
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