trồng cưỡng
Definition
- Verb:
- To force (a plant): An agricultural technique where plants, typically vegetables, are grown in controlled, often protected, conditions (like greenhouses, hotbeds, or under cover) to accelerate their growth and produce an out-of-season or earlier-than-natural harvest.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Nông dân đang trồng cưỡng dưa chuột trong nhà kính để bán sớm. (Farmers are forcing cucumbers in greenhouses to sell them early.)
- Kỹ thuật trồng cưỡng giúp cung cấp rau xanh quanh năm. (The forcing technique helps supply green vegetables all year round.)
Advanced Usage
- The term is specific to horticulture and agriculture. The focus is on manipulating the plant's environment (temperature, light, protection) to override its natural growth cycle for commercial or supply purposes.
Variants and Related Words
- Trồng trọt (v): to cultivate, to grow crops (general term).
- Canh tác (v): to farm, to cultivate land.
- Nhà kính (n): greenhouse (a common structure used for this practice).
Synonyms
- To force: (in horticulture) to cause a plant to grow or bloom outside its normal season.
- To grow under protection: a descriptive synonym for the method.
Related Idioms
- This term is technical and does not commonly appear in idiomatic expressions.