defoliate
defoliate 英 [ˌdi:ˈfəʊlieɪt] 美 [ˌdiˈfoʊlieɪt]
vt. 使落叶 vi. 落叶
进行时:defoliating 过去式:defoliated 过去分词:defoliated 第三人称单数:defoliates 名词复数:defoliates
- Defoliate means to take the leaves or branches off of a tree or bush. When your mom asks you to defoliate the rose bushes, she wants you to trim them back.
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- vt. 使落叶
- vi. 落叶
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1. Others defended the choice: "'Defriend' makes me think of 'defoliate' and, well, I dunno, it sounds weird," one wrote.
拥护者则这样写：“‘defriend’让我想起‘defoliate’，嗯，我也不知道，总之听起来怪怪的。”
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2. This annoying pest is harboured in the soil beneath the bush and manifests as a mass of tiny caterpillars that can defoliate the plant overnight.
这种令人厌烦的害虫生活在鹅莓树底下的土壤里，是一种能够在一夜之间破坏到所有树叶的虫子。
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3. The streptomces genus accounted 99% of the actinomycetes in the soil of the North-china defoliate pinewood and the dominant group was Roseosporus.
在华北落叶松林下放线菌中占99％，其中优势类群为粉红孢类群。
- defoliate (v.) 1793, perhaps a back-formation from defoliation. Earlier in this sense was defoil (c. 1600). Related: Defoliated; defoliating.
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