Definition of Exclosure

1. Noun. an enclosed area for protection or shelter from dangerous animals, especially referring to being fenced ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exclosure

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Exclosure

1. An area from which livestock or other animals are excluded. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exclosure

exclamation
exclamation-mark
exclamation mark
exclamation marks
exclamation point
exclamation point hair
exclamation points
exclamational
exclamations
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exclamatorily
exclamatory
exclame
exclave
exclaves
exclosure (current term)
exclosures
excludabilities
excludability
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excludee
excludees
excluder
excluders
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excludible
excluding
exclusion

Literary usage of Exclosure

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

1. Wild Land Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium: Proceedings edited by Bruce A. Roundy, E. Durant McArthur, Jennifer S. Hayley, David K. Mann (1996)
"Methods Shrub Growth and Canopy-Cover Agency files were searched for existing information on each exclosure. Care was taken to locate (1) all prior ..."

2. Proceedings of the Session on Tropical Forestry for People of the Pacific edited by C. Eugene Conrad, Leonard A. Newell (1994)
"Ten 50- by 50-m quadrats were randomly selected within a 16-ha exclosure located at 1700-m elevation inside the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge on ..."

3. Ecotourism Marshaling Resources to Promote New Jersey's Ecotourism Treasures ...Travel (1998)
"Every nest but two received an exclosure. One nest was destroyed before the exclosure ... This nest did get an exclosure. Of the ten nests that were found, ..."

4. Proceedings for the Eight Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by M. Boya Edwards (2001)
"Each exclosure, constructed of wood lath and hardware cloth to prevent seed prédation and seedling herbivory from mammals and birds, was of sufficient size ..."

5. Ecosystem Disturbance and Wildlife Conservation in Western Grasslands: A edited by Deborah M. Finch (1998)
"Grazing outside a cattle exclosure resulted in a shift to bird and small mammal ... Inside the exclosure, species preferring mesic and densely vegetated ..."

6. Vegetation Monitoring: An Annotated Bibliography edited by Caryl L. Elzinga, Angela G. Evenden (1998)
"A five-way exclosure, eliminating grazing of v combinations of deer, cattle, and rabbits, was monitor over 20 years following chaining of ..."

7. The Future of Arid Grasslands: Identifying Issues, Seeking Solutions edited by Barbara Tellman (1999)
"At the one site containing a long-term cattle exclosure fence, woody shrub increase was identical inside and outside the exclosure. ..."

8. The Roman Empire: Essays on the Constitutional History from the Accession of by Frederick William Bussell (1910)
"... but they encroached on the common lands—just as in England, we trace the gradual extinction of communal rights and the exclosure of open spaces—during ..."

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