单词 | carbunculation |
释义 | † carbunculationn. Obsolete. rare. The damaging of the buds, shoots, etc., of plants by frost or other extremes of temperature. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > damage due to environmental conditions wind-stroke1657 carbunculation1666 firing1693 fire blast1727 houseburning1757 winter-killing1827 sun scald1850 scalding1865 sunburn1865 wind-blow1921 water stress1922 balling1928 windrock1969 wind-rocking1972 Waldsterben1983 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > damaging or injuring > by environmental or supernatural factors blasting1535 blastment1604 nipping1606 sideration1623 carbunculation1666 1666 J. Caryl Expos. 38th–42nd Chaps. Job xxxviii. 228 Unseasonable Frosts..scorch the tender fruits, which bad effect of Frost is usually exprest by Carbunculation or blasting. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Carbunculation, is the blasting of the new-sprouted Buds of Trees and Plants, either by excessive Heat..or else by excessive Cold. 1855 J. Bostock & H. T. Riley tr. Pliny Nat. Hist. III. xvii. xxxvii. 520 The disease known as sideration entirely depends upon the heavens; and hence we may class under this head, the ill effects produced by hail-storms, carbunculation, and the damage caused by hoar-frosts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1666 |
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