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词汇 alfalfa
释义 alfalfa
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌælˈfæl.fə/ us /ˌælˈfæl.fə/
a plant grown as food, especially for farm animals, or used in salads before it is completely developed苜蓿,紫苜蓿
 
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Examples from literature

The clipping back of the alfalfa plants is helpful, rather than hurtful. 
We ought to be watering thousands of acres for alfalfa and grain that now are dry. 
When it occurs in cool weather and quickly subsides, it may be possible to grow paying crops of alfalfa. 
When some wet soils are drained, alfalfa may not succeed well on them for a time and later may grow luxuriantly. 
Where alfalfa or cow peas can be successfully grown, either crop would be preferable. 

Examples of alfalfa


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The field comprised a mosaic of conventionally-tilled and rye-mulched plots, surrounded by fields of maize, soybeans, alfalfa hay and mixed hardwood forest.
Unlike spotted alfalfa aphid, vein chlorosis was not observed after spotted clover aphid feeding in this experiment.
We have compared 27 varieties of alfalfa for the amounts and types of storage proteins present in samples of mature seed.
However, those treatments containing high proportions of alfalfa also attracted higher numbers of herbivorous keystone species.
In general, the treatments with the largest concentrations of alfalfa also had the highest numbers of aphids.
Residual effects of alfalfa and brome grass cropping on yields of wheat grown for subsequent 15 years.
The alfalfa-wheat strip-crop treatment demonstrated yields similar to alfalfa and wheat monoculture yields.
The present study pointed to the critical role of legumes, especially perennial alfalfa, for increasing the energy efficiency of a cropping system.
Applying a selective herbicide to the no-till intercrop treatment would have stunted alfalfa growth and therefore would probably have benefitted wheat growth and production.
Prices of alfalfa vary with production levels in local markets and are not eligible for government deficiency payments.
However, honey bees or alfalfa leafcutting bees were seen actively foraging in the soybean plots.
It increased the case definition specificity so that alfalfa sprouts were identified as the food vehicle with relatively few cases.
Due to lack of data, no price premium was considered for either organic alfalfa or organic oat straw.
In the stripcropped treatment, four samples were collected each from wheat strips (till) and from alfalfa strips (no-till) in a grid pattern.
This suggests that herbicide was more effective at reducing weeds after alfalfa than after wheat in this year.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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