| 单词 | wool alien |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswool alien wool alien n. a plant introduced into a country by means of imported wool containing its seed. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > non-native or migrant stranger1578 exotic1682 alien1847 colonizer1856 migrant1874 immigrant1880 adventive1883 pioneer1911 neophyte1916 wool alien1919 casual1926 1919 I. M. Hayward & G. C. Druce Adventive Flora Tweedside p. xxi It must not..be assumed that all the wool aliens will disappear. 1961 Proc. Bot. Soc. Brit. Isles 4 221 The party visited a railway siding in the same county, and further wool aliens were found... On enquiry he found that wool waste (‘shoddy’) was unloaded at the sidings and delivered to local farmers for use as a manure, and when this was followed up foreign weeds were found to be plentiful in their fields. 1976 B.S.B.I. News Sept. 22 J. R. Palmer searched hop fields near Wateringbury (Kent) and also found wool aliens present although no ‘shoddy’ has been used here for at least four years. < as lemmas |
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