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Wardian case

Hungarian translation: terrárium

09:57 Jul 28, 2004
English to Hungarian translations [PRO]
Botany
English term or phrase: Wardian case
Ez állítólag valami terrárium-féle, vagy annak az őse, üvegezett doboz, amelybe növényeket ültettek a viktoriánus időkben. Van magyar megfelelője?
Palko Agi
Local time: 13:47
Hungarian translation:terrárium
Explanation:
Az angol linkek egy részében így szerepel: "Wardian case or terrarium"
Máshol: The Wardian case, the direct forerunner of the modern terrarium, was invented by accident about 1829 by Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791-1868), of London. Dr Ward was a physician with a passion for botany. His personally collected herbarium amounted to 25,000 specimens. The ferns in his London garden in Wellclose Square, were being poisoned by London's fumes, coal smoke, and sulfuric acid. In contrast to his flagging ferns, in the bottles where Dr. Ward kept cocoons of moths and the like, he found that fern spores were germinating and growing in a bit of soil. He had a carpenter build him a closely-fitted glazed wooden case and found that ferns grown in it thrived.
De szerintem nyugodtan mondható korai üvegháznak is.
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HalmoforBT
Local time: 13:47
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4 +1terrárium vagy növényszállító doboz
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4terrárium
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wardian case
terrárium


Explanation:
Az angol linkek egy részében így szerepel: "Wardian case or terrarium"
Máshol: The Wardian case, the direct forerunner of the modern terrarium, was invented by accident about 1829 by Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791-1868), of London. Dr Ward was a physician with a passion for botany. His personally collected herbarium amounted to 25,000 specimens. The ferns in his London garden in Wellclose Square, were being poisoned by London's fumes, coal smoke, and sulfuric acid. In contrast to his flagging ferns, in the bottles where Dr. Ward kept cocoons of moths and the like, he found that fern spores were germinating and growing in a bit of soil. He had a carpenter build him a closely-fitted glazed wooden case and found that ferns grown in it thrived.
De szerintem nyugodtan mondható korai üvegháznak is.


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HalmoforBT
Local time: 13:47
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian
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wardian case
terrárium vagy növényszállító doboz


Explanation:
Mint terrárium ld. az előbbi választ. De van egy másik jelentése is: üvegtetejű fadoboz élőnövények szállítására. A szövegösszefüggés alapján döntsd el, melyik illik oda.

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Local time: 13:47
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian

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