- slash-and-burn method
- slash-and-burn method n Agric brûlis m.
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slash-and-burn method
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slash-and-burn — I. | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective : characterized or developed by felling and girdling trees and then burning them to make land arable usually for temporary purposes the slash and burn method of agriculture II. adjective : ruthlessly destructive slash… … Useful english dictionary
Slash and burn — consists of cutting and burning of forests or woodlands to create fields for agriculture or pasture for livestock, or for a variety of other purposes. It is sometimes part of shifting cultivation agriculture, and of transhumance livestock herding … Wikipedia
slash-and-burn — slash′ and burn′ adj. 1) agr. of or noting a method of agriculture in the tropics in which vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cultivated for a few years, then abandoned to the forest 2) cvb unnecessarily destructive or extreme •… … From formal English to slang
Slash-and-burn — This article is about slash and burn farming. For shifting cultivation, see shifting cultivation. For the Manic Street Preachers single, see Slash n Burn. Not to be confused with scorched earth. Slash and burn practices in Eno, Finland, 1893 … Wikipedia
slash and burn — also slash and burn N UNCOUNT: usu N n Slash and burn is a method of farming that involves clearing land by destroying and burning all the trees and plants on it, farming there for a short time, and then moving on to clear a new piece of land.… … English dictionary
slash-and-burn — /slæʃ ən ˈbɜn/ (say slash uhn bern) adjective of or relating to a method of cultivation of land, especially in developing countries, in which natural vegetation is cut down and burnt as a preliminary to growing crops or pasture: *Indonesian… …
slash-and-burn agriculture — ▪ agriculture method of cultivation often used by tropical forest root crop farmers in various parts of the world and by dry rice cultivators of the forested hill country of Southeast Asia. Areas of the forest are burned and cleared for… … Universalium
slash-and-burn — /slash euhn berrn /, adj. of a method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade. [1935 40] * * * … Universalium
slash-and-burn — adjective relating to or denoting a method of agriculture in which vegetation is cut down and burned off before new seeds are sown … English new terms dictionary
slash — {{11}}slash (n.) a cutting stroke with a weapon, 1570s, from SLASH (Cf. slash) (v.); sense of slit in a garment is from 1610s; that of open tract in a forest is first attested 1825, Amer.Eng. As a punctuation mark in writing or printing, it is… … Etymology dictionary
Controlled burn — Back burn redirects here. For the village in Scotland, see Backburn. An experimental burn in Canada; note the measuring equipment in front. Part of a series on W … Wikipedia
