starve-acre

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of crowfoot Ranunculus arvensis, known for growing on impoverished soil. uncountable
    — Some sandy soils are much overrun with the wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum), provincially called " rump," while the clays are swarmed with starve-acre (Ranunculus arvensis), and the clivers or burrs (Galium aparine), which are very troublesome to separate from the grain when winnowed.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to or characteristic of unproductive, impoverished soil.
    — There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place.

词形变化

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