boma
abbr. 建筑物业主与管理者协会（Building Owners and Managers Association）
词形变化
释义与例句
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An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
可数 不可数2003, Rosie Woodroffe, Simon Thirgood, Alan and Rabinowitz, People and Wildlife, Conflict Or Co-existence?, Cambridge University Press, page 298, Recent replacement of rolled mesh with bomas made of portable, flexible reinforced mesh panels have nearly eliminated predation.
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A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
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A hide.
可数 不可数1922, Mary Hastings Bradley, On the Gorilla trail, quoted in Mary Zeiss Strange (editor), Heart Shots: Women write about hunting, Stackpole Books, page 182, You try to arrange the scene so the moonlight will be on the bait with a clear background against which the lion will show up. You pile as much fresh brush as you can on your thicket or boma, as the hiding place is called, for the lion can see as well by day as by night.
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A hut.
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A military or police post or magistracy.
可数 不可数GWEMBE district police officer-in-charge Adams Gondwe has appealed to Government to put up a police post in Muyumbwe boma to replace one that was washed away by floods last year.
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A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
可数 不可数The cattle are usually corralled overnight which enables farmers to collect farmyard or boma manure.
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A method of composting in which animals are bedded on the material before it is used, allowing it to gather urine and dung.
定语 不可数 可数The Boma method is used on farms where there are animals (cows, sheep, goats, rabbits, chickens), which are kept in enclosures where droppings are concentrated.
词源
Borrowed from Swahili boma (“enclosure, fortified outpost”).
来源：wiktionary