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单词 to stop back
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to stop back
29. Horticulture. To pinch out the head of (a plant); to remove (a shoot or a portion of it) by pinching. Also to stop back.
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1699 L. Meager New Art of Gardening 66 August... Release and unbind the Buds you have Inoculated, if they have taken; prune and stop them.
1794 J. MacPhail Treat. Culture Cucumber 67 When the seedling plants have one or two joints, I stop them, after which they generally put forth two shoots.
1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xiv. 252 Stopping the plants, is to be performed about a week before they leave the seed bed.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 495 To concentrate the vigour of the plant, the shoots are stopped repeatedly as they advance in growth.
1849 Florist 256 Stop back young plants that have been struck this season.
figurative.1875 E. Dowden Shakespere: his Mind & Art 282 When Shakspere finds himself shooting up too rapidly he ‘stops’ himself, as gardeners do a plant.
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