单词 | winterkill |
释义 | > as lemmaswinterkill winterkill n. North American the death of plants or animals as a result of exposure to frost, snow, or extreme cold. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > winter-killing winter-killing1827 winterkill1837 1837 Daily Herald & Gaz. (Cleveland, Ohio) 6 Sept. The liability of wheat to winter kill on the prairies, has heretofore seriously affected the prospects of settlers in these gardens of nature. 1945 Ecol. Monogr. 15 343 (heading) Limnological conditions in ice-covered lakes, especially as related to winter-kill of fish. 2016 Ont. Farmer (Nexis) 11 Oct. a34 In 2016 there was very little winterkill observed across the province, mainly due to a very mild winter. winterkill winterkill v. North American (a) transitive to kill (a plant or animal) by exposure to frost, snow, or extreme cold (chiefly in passive); (b) intransitive (of a plant or animal) to die as a result of exposure to frost, snow, or extreme cold. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [verb (intransitive)] > become winter killed winterkill1790 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [verb (transitive)] > winter-kill winterkill1790 1790 N. Webster Farmer's Catechizm 9 in Little Reader's Assistant Is not clover liable to be winter-killed? 1794 E. L'Hommedieu in Trans. Soc. Promotion Agric. (U.S.) 2 111 The wheat was hurt by the winter, though..by computing that part which was not winter killed, the product would have been fifteen bushels. 1846 E. Emmons Agric. N.Y. I. 281 The grain very rarely winter-kills. 1849 Message President U.S.: Pt. III 653 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congress, 1st Sess.: Senate Executive Doc. 1) III The..snow which lies upon the ground nearly six months in the year would be likely to ‘winter-kill’ it. 1918 S. S. Visher Geogr. S. Dakota 56 Red clover is not a success..largely because it winter-kills. 1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. xi. 1/4 High nitrogen fertilizer..would only promote late growth that would winterkill. 2015 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 17 Dec. c1 There's a lot of white suckers, and it rarely winterkills so they'd certainly have a good forage base if they could get some longevity. < as lemmas |
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