"plant" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Forcing means tricking a dormant plant into believing it is spring.
- The dormant plant is very cold-hardy in Britain.
- What she had taken for a tree trunk or dormant plant was an animal.
- The dormant plant "will look dead," but in February shoots should appear.
- She slipped into the garden and ran lightly along the rows of dormant plants.
- But heavy rainfall can make a dormant plant grow again, even in a desert.
- But there is a "permanent wilting point," he said, when a dormant plant that has slowed its respiration will stop breathing entirely.
- Also, grape pruning is done on dormant plants, before growth begins.
- Though dormant plants often get all they need from rain and snow, it is best to check the soil every two or three weeks.
- One alternative, he said, would be to fire up one of its dormant fossil-fuel plants, which would mean more air pollution.
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