Definition of Thinnings

1. Noun. plants that have been removed in order to improve the growth of the remainder ¹

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Definition of Thinnings

1. thinning [n] - See also: thinning

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thinnings

thinktanker
thinktankers
thinktanks
thinky
thinly
thinned
thinned out
thinner
thinners
thinness
thinnesses
thinnest
thinning
thinning out
thinning shears
thinnings (current term)
thinnish
thinolite
thinolites
thins
thins out
thinspiration
thinspo
thio
thio-
thioTEPA
thioacetal
thioacetals
thioacetamide
thioacetamides

Literary usage of Thinnings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practice of Silviculture, with Particular Reference to Its Application by Ralph Chipman Hawley (1921)
"Advantages of thinnings. — The advantages of thinnings applied in the stand as compared with Nature's unrestricted competition can be summed up under the ..."

2. Michigan Manual of Forestry by Filibert Roth (1916)
"thinnings. The incomes from thinnings are set down in most modern yield ... These tables for thinnings are not as fully developed as the tables for the ..."

3. Seeding and Planting: A Manual for the Guidance of Forestry Students by James William Toumey (1916)
"A 40-year-old plantation of Norway spruce spaced 4 by 4 feet in which about two-thirds of the trees have been removed in the thinnings. ..."

4. A Manual of Forestry by William Schlich (1904)
"Execution of thinnings. The advantages of thinnings can be fully realised only if the operations are conducted in a careful and judicious manner; ..."

5. The Forester =: Or, A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and by James Brown (1882)
"SECTION I.—SUGGESTIONS AS TO TUB MODE OF DISPOSING OF thinnings AS THEY ARE REMOVED FROM THE STANDING CROP. 2034. The trees felled as thinnings in a ..."

6. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and General by James Brown (1861)
"The trees felled as thinnings in a plantation, whether the latter be large or small, young or old, should never be allowed to lie where ..."

7. The Organization and Valuation of Forests, on the Continental System, in by J. L. L. Macgregor (1883)
"DETERMINATION OF THE YIELD OF thinnings AT DIFFERENT AGES OF GROUPS. THE yields of thinnings at different stages in the development of groups may be ..."

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