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UK
/dɪfˈəʊlɪˈeɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- the loss of foliage
- causing the leaves of trees and other plants to fall off (as by the use of chemicals)
How To Use defoliation In A Sentence
- The numbers above the lanes refer to sampling day (days after defoliation).
- Reported diseases include a bark gummosis, one defoliation leafspot, and some fungal diseases of seedlings in nurseries. Chapter 8
- Above-ground symptoms include chlorosis and reddening of the leaves, small leaves, defoliation, branch dieback, death of entire canes, stunting, and death of the entire bush.
- Slug injury to corn may occur before emergence due to feeding activity on the seeds in the furrow or to severe defoliation soon after emergence.
- Botanical humans are at war with a cervine insurgency that has greater defoliation power than a squadron-load of Agent Orange.
- Unlike Japanese larch and white pine, defoliated bear oak seedlings showed very little response to partial defoliation.
- The concentration of both glutamine and asparagine, the most abundant of the specific amino acids, declined rapidly during phase 1 after defoliation.
- Leaf nitrogen has been shown to respond variably following defoliation.
- We evaluated the costs of leaf height and defoliation in this plant by conducting a replicated field experiment in a forested landscape.
- Defoliation induced an increase in the number of resin droplets in the fertilized saplings.
