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单词 semination
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seminationn.

/sɛmɪˈneɪʃən/
Etymology: < Latin sēminātiōn-em, < sēmināre to sow: see seminate v.
1.
a. The action or process of sowing. Chiefly figurative.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > [noun]
sowing1362
sowa1400
sation?1440
semination1531
seeding1541
seedness1549
seedage1610
sature1657
insemination1658
grass seeding1823
semence1859
the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [noun] > sowing or propagation (of ideas, etc.)
semination1531
1531 T. Cromwell Let. May in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 338 The semynacyon and sowing such euill seedes of dampnable and detestable heresies.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva ii. 8 But to make an Essay what Seed is most agreeable to the Soil, you may by the thriving of a promiscuous Semination make a judgement of it.
1737 L. Clarke Compl. Hist. Bible II. vii. 195 From a slender Semination of the Gospel there was likely to be a vast Harvest.
1818 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 880 I intended to educate it strictly on the Rousseau Plan, and to have preserved it from all artificial Semination.
1819 J. Lawrence in Monthly Mag. Nov. 314/2 It is beginning to be sown with the seeds of such as we fashionably style French principles: in a few years, the semination will be universal and complete.
b. A mode of grafting. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > other methods of grafting
emplastering?c1425
emplastration?1440
infoliation1577
semination1589
emplaster1601
packing1615
shoulder-grafting1669
side grafting1704
crown grafting1706
root grafting1707
rind grafting1722
tipping1763
saddle grafting1792
wedge-grafting1838
1589 A. Fleming in tr. Virgil Georgiks ii. 21 (note) in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Semination, insition, inoculation or implastration, the three kindes of grafting.
c. (See quot. 1722) Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > immission of semen
semination1722
insemination1860
1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) Semination, is called by Blasius the Immission of the Male-Seed into the Womb in Coition.
2. The production of seed or semen.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [noun] > secretion of semen or sperm
pollutionc1390
semination1658
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Semination, or Sementation, a sowing, or bringing forth seed.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iii. iv. 267 And therefore such Herbs, if their Semination be prevented by being cut, survive to the next Year.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. V. 113 The generic term Prœotia or Prœotes is copied from Theophrastus... It is, however, peculiarly applied to premature semination.
1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 124 All the Hieracia are erect throughout the process of florescence and semination.
3. The natural dispersion of seeds.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > plant having seed > [noun] > dispersal of seeds
shedding1721
semination1765
myrmecochory1908
hydrochory1969
1765 S. Johnson Plays of Shakespeare IV. 142 Those who perceived that fern was propagated by semination and yet could never see the seed.
4. = inoculation n. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > immunoprophylaxis > [noun] > immunization > inoculation or vaccination
semination1747
inoculating1754
inoculation1759
vaccine inoculation1799
vaccinating1801
vaccination1868
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 527/1 We are informed (by the learned Maitland) that this method of Semination of the small pox, has been in use, above 100 years among the Chinese.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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