Thinning

Definitions

1. Process of removing plants or parts of plants to facilitate the growth of other plants
2. Wood, leaves, or other plant parts removed during the process of thinning
3. The action or result of reducing thickness, density, or number

Equivalents

Examples

“The trimming, pruning and thinning must be managed with care. Some need⟳ more thinning than others.”

“but with a suitable mixture of early and late maturing kinds, the young hickories, ashs and larches can be utilized as thinnings, at a profit. In estimating the value of the thinnings upon the basis of Prof. Sargent's estimate⟳ of the acreage yield⟳ of hoop poles from hickory plantations,”

“It is highly likely that this thinning was not atrophic or pathological, but simply the thinning from stretching under the forces of labor, as Bandl and others explain⟳ it.”

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