n
(horticulture) The use of a mixture of microorganisms to cover food waste to decrease smell, based on an old Japanese farming practice.
v
(transitive) To make into a bonsai by restricting the roots and pruning.
n
The law in Jersey and Guernsey that requires the trimming of such where it overhangs public roads.
adj
Alternative spelling of brickshaped [shaped like a brick]
n
Synonym of carroting (“method of processing animal pelts”)
adj
(forestry) Having had all trees cut.
n
The act of cutting back a woody plant to promote new growth.
adj
Covered by a coverslip.
v
To mark with lines or streaks like waving plumes.
n
(horticulture) A pruning technique similar to coppicing, used on Japanese cedars.
adj
Resembling a fan (hand-held cooling device).
n
The act or process of furcating; a forking or branching out.
v
(intransitive) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
v
(rare, now especially in the phrase "hele in") To cover or conceal (a seedling, plant, roots, etc).
n
(botany) A cleft or division.
n
The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.
n
a branch by which something is pleached
n
(horticulture) A technique of interweaving living and dead branches through a hedge for stock control; plashing.
v
(horticulture) To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.
n
A person who prunes trees.
adj
Of, or pertaining to, prunes.
n
A removal of excess material from a tree or shrub.
n
(archaic) A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.
adj
Made of or composed of sedge.
n
A person who seeds clouds in order to make it rain
v
(transitive, UK, dialect) To lop the branches from (a tree).
adj
In the form of a spire.
n
(horticulture) a method of grafting by cutting the ends of the scion and stock completely across and obliquely, in such a manner that the sections are of the same shape, then lapping the ends so that the one cut surface exactly fits the other, and securing them by tying or otherwise.
n
The marking of saplings to remain when thinning a forest
v
(horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
n
The practice of pruning plants during the growing season.
n
(rare) A pruning or cutting of trees.
n
(agriculture, forestry) Wood, leaves, or other plant parts removed during the process of thinning
n
(uncountable) Art or practice of trimming shrubs or trees in artistic or ornamental shapes, e.g. of animals.
n
The removal of topsoil before an excavation or embankment is begun.
v
(transitive) To train or arrange (plants) so that they grow against a trellis.
n
A clump of grass or similar vegetation; a small grass-covered mound.
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