dumping ground

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dumping ground (复数 dumping grounds)

垃圾场
(比喻义) 任何不需要的东西被送往的地方
- 2015, Alison Matthews David, Fashion Victims: The Damages of Dress Past and Present, →ISBN，页号 210:
  The Indian representative of a global trade union called IndustriALL warned that other clothes and accessories shipped overseas might also be radioactive because India has become a "dumping ground" for the West's hazardous waste.
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- 2021 6月 16, “Network News: Boost for Stanton Gate revival”, 出自 RAIL, 期 933，页号 14:
  Around 25 years ago, it was used as a dumping ground for Toton locomotives destined for scrapyards.
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(分类学) 一个推测为多系群的超种分类群，其中亲缘关系不明确的物种被置于其中。
近义词： wastebasket taxon
- 2008 December, Mark W. Chase et al., “Taxonomic transfers in Oncidiinae to accord with Genera Orchidacearum, Vol. 5”, 出自 Lindleyana:
  Several genera, e.g. Miltonia Lindl., Odontoglossum Kunth and Oncidium Sw., have historically been viewed as taxa of convenience and thus became dumping grounds for species of unclear relationships.
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