to defoliate

Examples

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• Herbicides are chemicals that either defoliate or kill plants by mimicking and accelerating the action of their growth hormones, thereby causing leaves to drop off.

  Academic text (1990)

• The adults and young feed on saltcedar leaves, repeatedly defoliating the tree and depriving it of nutrients.

  Academic text (2000)

• Now the next thing we have to do is unfortunate, but it's defoliate because the plant will simply begin to die after it begins to flower.

• All right, And the final tip and one of the most crucial tips as well to getting your coffee tree to fruit and flower is to defoliate the center of your coffee tree.

• Now for the Catalpa caterpillars; they don't kill the tree; they defoliate it, but it does come back.

  Blog text (30)

• Scientists fear that this species could cause vastly more damage than the European gypsy moth, which already defoliates 1.5 million hectares of forest per year in North America.

  Academic text (2004)

• Palms, too, have flexible trunks and protected buds; even if defoliated, they display high survival rates (Boucher 1990).

  Academic text (1993)

• The chemicals used in agriculture can defoliate crops to improve the harvest.

• Pests like caterpillars can defoliate trees rapidly if not controlled.

• Farmers often need to defoliate their fields to ensure better growth next season.

Antonyms

F

to foliate

• Specialized

7.1

To grow leaves on a plant

How Bare

to denude

5 7.8

to strip

• Specialized

1 6.5

to defoliate

• Specialized

1 7.4

to trim

95 2.6

to prune

6 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology