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defoliated

[ UK /dɪfˈə‍ʊlɪˌe‍ɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. deprived of leaves

How To Use defoliated In A Sentence

  • Harris noted that defoliated plants could compensate for lost leaf area and increase in mass relative to non-defoliated plants.
  • Somewhere out there beyond the elephant grass and the rice paddies and the hills that had been chemically defoliated or burned by napalm, Bedcheck Charlie was prowling through the darkness in black pajamas and a conical straw hat and sandals fashioned from the rubber strips he had sawed out of a truck tire. The Glass Rainbow
  • At 5 months, plants were partially defoliated or left intact.
  • Napalm poured into the villages while weed killers defoliated the countryside.
  • Place the freshly cut stems in a bottle of water and place in contact with the defoliated loosestrife plants.
  • The three seemingly never-ending, dark days that we had spent sinking in black puddles and slipping on fallen leaves in a courtyard of faded, gray concrete apartment blocks, where we had waited with dozens of other reporters behind a small grove of defoliated trees and a police cordon. Peace Meals
  • Little leaf lindens will certainly be defoliated if Japanese beetles are in the area.
  • In the world that has "developed" since 1971, it has been fought in the barrios; it has defoliated land and driven peasants into even worse poverty. Richard Nixon's 'war on drugs' began 40 years ago, and the battle is still raging
  • The crop was a mutant but bountiful one, and it was believed that Garuda provided largely defoliated Optera with much of its needed supply of nutrient.
  • Much of the Vietnamese countryside was defoliated using poisons like Agent Orange, so toxic that even the soldiers who did the spraying suffered long-term damage to their health.
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