Usually means: Decline and death of branches.
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  8. dieback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  16. dieback: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dieback)

noun:  (phytopathology) The browning and death of a plant shoot starting at the tip, due to either disease or climate conditions.
noun:  (botany) The withering of a plant, especially the cyclical withering in autumn and winter; distal parts die off but core parts stay alive (and semidormant or dormant).

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