winterkill
- noun
- /ˈwɪntərˌkɪl/
- Specialized
:
muerte invernal
- Farmers often worry about winterkill affecting their crops when snow cover is insufficient during the cold months.
Examples
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Below-normal snow cover and frost depths can lead to winterkill of alfalfa and winter wheat.
Academic text (1994) -
And she needed a boiling paunch, which meant killing an animal or finding a winterkill that hadn't been ravaged by scavengers.
Fiction book (1992) -
However, the cool, wet summer of 1992, followed by high losses of alfalfa to winterkill during 1992-93, left many dairy farmers with depleted supplies of hay and feed and hence more vulnerable to adverse conditions during 1993.
Academic text (1994) -
Severe frost can cause winterkill in young saplings, leading to their death by spring.
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The harsh winter resulted in winterkill for many of the newly planted flowers in the garden.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Winterkill is made of two simple words: winter ('the cold season') and kill ('to cause death'), so it means 'death or serious damage caused by winter', and we use it for plants or animals that die in very cold weather.
