スッラ（マメ科の飼料作物）
解説 Definition
sulla は特定の多年生マメ科植物を指す名称で、地中海地域を中心に家畜用の飼料作物として栽培されます。放牧、干し草、動物用飼料などに利用され、飼料全般を指す語ではありません。
Sulla is a perennial Mediterranean legume cultivated mainly as nutritious forage for livestock. It is used for grazing, hay, or animal feed and is valued in suitable climates for its productive growth and ability to improve soil through nitrogen fixation.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
sulla は一般的な「飼料」全体ではなく、地中海地域で栽培されるマメ科の飼料作物名です。イタリア語から入った植物名として綴りごと覚え、sulla fodder、sulla crop、grow sulla for livestock のような組み合わせで定着させます。栄養価の高い legume である点を alfalfa などの牧草と結び付けると実用的です。
Treat sulla as the name of a particular forage plant, not as a general word for all animal feed. Picture a Mediterranean field planted with a flowering legume for cattle or sheep. Useful combinations include sulla crop, sulla fodder, grow sulla for livestock, and sulla hay. Connect it with familiar forage legumes such as alfalfa: both can provide nutritious feed, but sulla names its own plant species and is especially associated with Mediterranean agriculture. Its borrowed spelling has no productive English prefix or suffix, so remembering the farming context is more reliable than trying to divide the word into English parts.
例文
The farmer planted sulla as winter fodder for the cattle.
その農夫は牛の冬用飼料としてスッラを植えた。
Sulla is a nutritious legume crop for livestock.
スッラは家畜用の栄養価の高いマメ科作物です。
The field was dedicated to growing sulla for animal feed.
その畑は動物用飼料としてスッラを栽培するために使われました。
sulla の類義語・関連語
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sulla の語源・成り立ち Etymology
sulla は地中海産のマメ科牧草名で、英語ではイタリア語 sulla から入り、その名はさらにスペイン語 zulla に由来するとされます。外来の植物名をそのまま受けた語で、French honeysuckle や zulla と結びつけると南欧由来の作物名だと分かります。
English borrowed sulla as the name of a Mediterranean forage legume from Italian sulla. The Italian plant name is associated with Spanish zulla, another name for the same or a closely related forage plant. Its more remote history is not fully secure, so the word is best understood as a borrowed regional crop name rather than as a term built from modern English elements. French honeysuckle is another established English name for the plant.
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