Plant-life Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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canopy science n. In his latest work, “The Wild Trees,” Preston examines what has come to be called “canopy science,” a study which takes as its topic the ecology and biology of the uppermost portion of both tropical and temperate rainforests. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Plant-life Science] [full cite] (May. 6, 2007)

carpet planting n. The Garden’s Cocos used “carpet planting” as another term for the pincushion gardens, because of their intense, dense planting. [English Plant-life] [full cite] (Jun. 20, 2008)

Charlie Brown tree n. Two charming young women bragged to me (within 12 hours and 50 miles of each other) that they each have a “Charlie Brown” tree—small, skinny, needleless, crooked, with only half-a-string of lights and two ornament balls on it. “Furthermore,” they continued triumphantly, “everybody who comes in sees it and says, “I love your tree. I want one just like it.” [English Plant-life] [full cite] (Jan. 5, 2007)

chase the bloom v. phr. For the most part, colony collapse disorder has been limited to large operations that truck their hives cross country to “chase the bloom,” as it’s known. That is, vast mobile operations that make most of their cash not from honey but rather from for-hire pollination services in areas where mono-cropping and suburbanization have wiped out wild bees and small-scale bee keeping. [English Agriculture Environment Plant-life] [full cite] (May. 3, 2007)

chicken tree n. Trees are bulldozed and pulled, Segura explained, if they’re so-called “chicken” trees or others that don’t have value to the landowner or won’t cause issues later that could clog the ditches being cleaned out in the first place. [English Plant-life] [full cite] (Feb. 12, 2007)

cybridization n. An experimental method called cybridization transfers a gene for sterility into seedy varieties, rendering them seedless more efficiently than the shotgun approach used in irradiation. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Mar. 26, 2007)

donker n. The brown shiny seeds, called buckeyes, are considered to be lucky charms. Avid Gardener member Ann Clayton, who is from Manchester, England, tells me that buckeyes are called “donkers” there. Fastened to a string, they were used in a game not unlike yo-yo. Clayton and other Avid Gardeners plan to propagate buckeyes by planting the seed. [English Plant-life] [full cite] (Feb. 27, 2007)

family forest n.

That complexity is why he and other Northeast foresters are increasingly being called on by private landowners to help them manage their wooded acreage, commonly called “family forests.” Many of the owners have civic motives, wanting to protect their forests and ensure that invasive plant species and insects do not get a foothold.

[English Plant-life] [full cite] (Aug. 26, 2008)

flake n. A flake of hay is about 20 lbs so each cow would get about a 1⁄4 of a flake. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2007)

flake n. The donkeys are inexpensive to keep. They eat a flake of hay a day and a Campbell’s soup tin of grain. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2007)

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