| 单词 |
root-end |
| 释义 |
root-end [f. root n.] That end of a stem, hair, etc., which is next the root; the end of a seed from which the root is developed.
1636Sanderson Serm. II. 54 A heart hardned with long custom of sinning..is like the knotty root-end of an old oak. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 343 When the Sprits come forth at the Root-end of the Corn. 1743R. Maxwell Sel. Trans. 331 When you take out the Lint..set it up on the Root-end in Rows. 1832Planting 29 in Husb. III. (L.U.K.), The leaves should be cut off half way up from the root-end of the cutting. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 403 Raising the first sheaf.., and passing it with the root-ends downwards to the ground. 1879A. Gray Struct. Bot. (ed. 6) 13 The root..originates in tissue just back of that which covers the root-end of the caulicle. |

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