boll

• n. [植物]丸いさや；bole（容量単位）
• n. （ボル）人名；（アラブ）boll；（英語、フランス語、ドイツ語、フィンランド語、スウェーデン語）boll

PIE *bhel（膨らむ、膨らむ）から。語源的にはballと同じ。

boll (n.)

Old English bolla "bowl, cup, pot," merged with Middle Dutch bolle "round object," borrowed 13c., both from Proto-Germanic *bul-, from PIE *bhel- (2) "to blow, inflate, swell" (see bole). Influenced in meaning by Latin bulla "bubble, ball," ultimately from the same PIE root. Extended c. 1500 to "round seed pod of flax or cotton." Boll weevil is 1895, American English.

In south Texas, among Spanish-speaking people, the insect is generally known as the 'picudo,' a descriptive name which refers to the snout or beak of the insect. English-speaking planters generally referred to the insect at first as 'the sharpshooter,' a term which for many years has been applied to any insect which causes through its punctures the shedding of the squares or the rotting of the bolls. As there are several native insects that are commonly called sharpshooters and which, though injurious, are by no means to be compared with this insect, it becomes necessary to discourage in every way the use of the word sharpshooter as applied to this weevil. The adoption of the term 'Mexican cotton-boll weevil' for the new pest is recommended. [New Mexico College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin No. 19, April 1896]

A case of entomology meddling in etymology.

1. Boll rot has been attributed to a wide range of organisms.

綿鈴の腐敗は分布範囲の広い微生物によって引き起こされる.

2.The price was struck by the boll .

価格はボーアで決定します。

3.Certain boll shapes and absence of nectarines reduces easy avenues of penetration into the boll .

いくつかの鈴形と無蜜腺減少病原菌が綿鈴に入りやすい経路。

4.The cotton grows on the plant as long hairs attached to the seeds inside the boll .

綿花は株の上で種に付着した長い綿毛として綿鈴の中で成長発育する。

5.Farm demonstration work in the South helped to fight the cotton boll weevil.

南部農場のモデル作業は綿花ゾウムシの予防と治療に大いに役立つ。