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frostless en · ADJ

Etymology

From frost + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without frost.
    • Some schools have become advanced production units of various hsien and communes, serving as stations for the propagation of good seeds, for the performance of scientific experiments, and for the extension of techniques. For example, the Liang-ping-t'ai Agricultural Middle School of An-t'u [translating 安圖 /安图 (Āntú)] Hsien, to introduce varieties of high-yield paddy rice suited to the special local condition of a short frostless period, conducted comparative experiments on eight of such varieties and compiled records of the year-round observation and survey of water temperatures, thus accumulating a vast amount of material on the study of high-yield paddy rice. 1966 January 19 [1965 July 15], “Consolidate and Improve our Province's Agricultural Middle Schools”, in Translations of Political and Sociological Information on Communist China, number 322, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Chi-lin Chiao-yu (Education in Kirin), Changchun, No 7, 15 July 1965, pages 26-27 [吉林教育], translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 83:

Deriveds

frostlessness

Translations (1)

pl bezmroźny (Translations)