单词 | smut-ball |
释义 | smut-balln. A single grain of wheat or other cereal affected by smut or bunt; a cohesive body of smut. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > smut or smutty condition > grain affected by slain1703 smut-ball1745 smut1799 1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd II. July xii. 130 Many whole Ears [of wheat] have nothing but Smut-balls in them, and others Part Smut-balls, and Part Pepper-wheat in them. a1761 S. Hales in J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry (1763) III. 128 The moisture that was equal to the weight of the smut-balls and smut that was washed from the wheat. 1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 154 The grains were..rubbed between the hands, in such a manner as to break the whole of the smut balls. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 954 A longitudinal section of a smut-ball taken when the stamens are fully formed within the corolla. 1883 Good Words Nov. 736/1 Bunt..is known by various names in different parts of the country, as smut-balls, bladder-brand, stinking-rust, &c. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1745 |
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