Crossword-Solution: DEFOLIATING
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
ADSORL
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with DEFOLIATING (5)
The _locust miner_ is a beetle which is now annually defoliating trees of this species in large numbers.
The disease of eastern Mack walnut known as leaf spot, or anthracnose, is one of these defoliating diseases that causes untold damage from poorly filled nuts in the current crop year, and results in a small crop or none at all the following year.
With the exception of shading, pruning and defoliating, this is about the only method we have of preventing evaporation.
They will work all round a garden for weeks, perhaps pass through it _en route_ to some tree that they are defoliating, and then suddenly, one night, every Atta in the world seems possessed with a desire to work havoc, and at daylight the next morning, the garden looks like winter stubble--a vast expanse of stems and twigs, without a single remaining leaf.
The sauba ant cuts off leaves of plants and carries them into its subterranean nests, and thus often does great damage by defoliating trees and cultivated plants.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2007).