| 单词 | their own bottoms | 
| 释义 | > as lemmastheir own bottoms  a.  The rootstock of a plant. Only in  its own bottom,  their own bottoms (contrasted with the stock of a grafted plant). Now rare.Cf. to stand on one's own bottom at  Phrases 3. ΚΠ 1640    J. Dyke in  J. Dyke Right Receiving of Christ Ep. to Rdr. sig. A5v  				A plant that growes upon its owne bottome. 1725    Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 33 128  				By the contrary Rule, all firm Timber, grafted on spungy stocks, would be made worse than it would be on its own Bottom. 1775    W. Boutcher Treat. Forest-trees i. 12  				Those on Scots stocks will succeed better than the English [elm] on its own bottom. 1835    Amer. Gardener's Mag. Aug. 313  				Now I have had very ill success in raising the tea roses on their own bottoms. 1854    E. Ravenscroft Neill's Fruit, Flower, & Kitchen Garden 		(ed. 5)	 26  				The tree should stand on its own bottom, or be struck from a cutting. 1865    Trans. N.Y. State Agric. Soc. 1864 24 389  				The pear itself shall strike root and make its own bottom, irrespective of what support it may derive from the quince. 1920    Amer. Florist 14 Aug. 196/1  				Butterfly is in the same class [of roses] as Ophelia except that it is a much more vigorous grower, which favors growth on its own bottom. 1933    P. M. Wagner Amer. Wines ii. 60  				Wines were prepared from Pinot grafted on Riparia, and Pinot growing on its own bottom. < as lemmas  | 
	
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