boll

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /bɒl/|/bəʊl/    美 /boʊl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
    — Sometimes the slave picks down one side of a row, and back upon the other, but more usually, there is one on either side, gathering all that has blossomed, leaving the unopened bolls for a succeeding picking.
  2. A protuberance or excrescence growing on the trunks of some trees, a burl.
  3. An old dry measure equal to six bushels. Scotland
    — I ſowed on this Ground, without any Dung or Manure, a Lippy of Oats, from which I had a Boll wanting a Chopin.
动词 v.
  1. To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
    — The barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

词形变化

bolls plural bolls present,singular,third-person bolling participle,present bolled participle,past bolled past

词汇关系

衍生词
boll weevil bollworm cotton boll throat-boll

词源

词源 1
From Middle English bolle (“pod; shell”) and Middle Dutch bolle (“round object”), from Frankish *bollo, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bullô (“round object; bowl”). More at bowl.
词源 2
From Middle English bolle (“pod; shell”) and Middle Dutch bolle (“round object”), from Frankish *bollo, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bullô (“round object; bowl”). More at bowl.
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