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POLLARD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pollard" is a kind of...):

ruminant (any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pollard" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Derivation:

poll; pollard (convert into a pollard)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert into a pollard

Example:

pollard trees

Synonyms:

poll; pollard

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "pollard" is one way to...):

clip; crop; cut back; dress; lop; prune; snip; trim (cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They pollard the trees

Derivation:

pollard (a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage)

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