dược mạ
Definition
- Noun:
- Rice nursery, rice seedling bed: A specific area of a field where rice seeds are sown and nurtured until the young seedlings are strong enough to be transplanted to the main paddy field.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Nông dân đang chăm sóc dược mạ trước khi cấy. (Farmers are tending to the rice nursery before transplanting.)
- Dược mạ phát triển rất tốt nhờ thời tiết thuận lợi. (The rice seedlings are growing very well thanks to favorable weather.)
Advanced Usage
- "chuẩn bị dược mạ": to prepare a rice nursery/seedbed.
- Công việc đầu tiên của vụ lúa là chuẩn bị dược mạ. (The first task of the rice crop is to prepare the seedling bed.)
Variants and Related Words
- Mạ (n): A more common and general term for rice seedlings. is a more specific term for the nursery bed itself.
- Vườn ươm (n): Nursery (a general term for a place where young plants are grown, not specific to rice).
Synonyms
- Luống mạ: Rice seedling bed (synonymous, emphasizing the raised bed structure).
- Ruộng mạ: Rice seedling field.
Related Phrases
- Gieo mạ / Gieo dược mạ: To sow rice seeds in the nursery.
- Họ vừa gieo dược mạ xong. (They have just finished sowing the rice nursery.)
- Nhổ mạ: To pull up rice seedlings from the nursery for transplanting.
- Sáng mai, chúng tôi sẽ ra đồng nhổ mạ. (Tomorrow morning, we will go to the field to pull up the seedlings.)