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

Citations in the Category Plant-life

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flake n. A big flake of straw thrown out onto the snow, along with some scratch feed, made it a bit more tempting a place to explore and soon half the flock were out in the sun. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2007)

flake n. I prefer mulches that break down readily in the soil and are easy to lay down. I used to buy salt hay, which grows in coastal marshes, because the seeds it contains don’t germinate in gardens. But it’s less available now, so I use straw or hay. These come off the bale in flakes, like the volumes in an encyclopedia. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2007)

flake n. I want nothing except for this flake of alfalfa hay in the back corner. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Aug. 21, 2007)

flare out n. After experiencing months of saturated soils in the winter, then bone dry periods in the spring and summer, some Douglas firs planted in less than ideal situations are showing what some foresters call “flare out,” the occasional dead branch, top or the entire tree. [English Plant-life] [full cite] (Aug. 9, 2007)

fleak n. FLEAK, s. a small bundle of hay; not a truss. [English United Kingdom Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Aug. 24, 2007)

grub up v. phr. Under a scheme to start in August 2008, if EU agriculture ministers agree, subsidies to uproot vineyards—or “grub up,” in EU parlance—would fall gradually each year in a carrot-and-stick approach to promote early “take-up.” [English Plant-life] [full cite] (Jul. 18, 2007)

heel v. Once you have selected your tree, take it home and store or “heel” it, as they say in the trade, in the coldest, darkest place you have, such as on the north side of your house or in a cellar. Keep it there until just before it starts to bud out. [English Plant-life Jargon] [full cite] (Jan. 29, 2008)

hurricane cut n. Removing flower and fruit clusters is also fine. This debris can be messy and also potentially hazardous. This removal also reduces the number of weedy palm seedlings that could sprout up around the base. Overpruning can be detrimental to a palm. “hurricane cuts,” as they are called, stresses the palm to a point where there is an increased chance of disease and insect invasion. [English Plant-life] [full cite] (Jan. 5, 2007)

hurricane cutting n. here is a practice sometimes called “hurricane cutting.” This involves removing not only all the dead fronds but all the green ones as well—including that batch of new fronds that sticks up in the air. Removing the fronds would inhibit the spread of roots and hence the growth of the tree. The problem with this is that it’s not a very good idea: It will kill the tree. [English Plant-life] [full cite] (Jun. 2, 2008)

hydroseed v. Accompanying the installation of lifesaving guardrails along the Route 17 median in southern Orange County is an alien-green liquid that workers have been spraying on with a high-powered hose.…The process is called hydroseeding. The substance is a mixture of wood-fiber mulch, fertilizer and seed that forms a slurry. [English Agriculture Plant-life Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 20, 2007)

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