单词 | reprune |
释义 | reprunev.1 transitive. To prune or cut back again. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > trees: prune or lop sneda800 shredc1000 crop?c1225 purgec1384 parea1398 shear1398 shridea1425 dodc1440 polla1449 twist1483 top1509 stow1513 lop1519 bough?1523 head?1523 poll-shred1530 prune1547 prime1565 twig1570 reform1574 disbranch1575 shroud1577 snathe1609 detruncate1623 amputate1638 abnodate1656 duba1661 to strip up1664 reprune1666 pollard1670 shrub1682 log1699 switch1811 limb1835 preen1847 to cut back1871 shrig1873 brash1950 summer prune1980 the world > animals > birds > actions or bird defined by > [verb (transitive)] > preen > again reprune1666 1666 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 2) 59 Reprune now Abricots, and Peaches. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) To Reprune, to prune a second time. 1841 Gardener's Mag. Sept. 456 I have pruned and repruned several more trees as examples of the system. 1885 Liverpool Mercury 29 Sept. 5/1 What Lord Beaconsfield had called the hierarchy required repruning, as hierarchies had been repruned before. 1957 Ecology 38 415/1 It was necessary to reprune the roots and replant the seedlings before they were used. 1998 Ledger (Lakeland, Florida) (Nexis) 2 Jan. d6 New growth will be killed, and you will need to reprune the tree. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † reprunev.2 Obsolete. rare. transitive. To preen or tend to again. In quot. in figurative context. Cf. prune v.1 ΚΠ 1745 E. Young Consolation 61 In Mid-way Flight Imagination tires: Yet soon re-prunes her Wing to soar anew. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < v.11666v.21745 |
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