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Pronunciation: [pɹˈuːnɪŋ] (IPA)

Pruning involves the careful cutting and trimming of trees, bushes or plants to maintain their health and growth. Synonyms for pruning include trimming, cutting back, shearing, snipping, clipping, lopping, topping, and shaping. Trimming involves the removal of small and overgrown parts of a plant, whereas cutting back usually refers to more aggressive pruning. Shearing involves using scissors or pruning tools to remove the excess growth of the plant. Snipping involves the cutting of small branches or flowers, and clipping is usually done to keep hedges and bushes in shape. Lopping is the removal of larger branches, while topping involves cutting the top of a plant to control its height. Shaping refers to the pruning of plants to create specific shapes, such as topiaries.

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Usage examples for Pruning

In the latter case you may use your judgment in pruning away the too great exuberance of the noxious plant, but if you destroy it once for all, you have frustrated the intentions of him who placed it there.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Miss Felicia, good as she was and loving as she had been, had done nothing in the pruning way-that is, nothing which would let in any sunshine radiating from Jack.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
They suggest careful pruning of fruit and shade trees, by cutting limbs smooth and close to the trunk, and then painting the smooth surface with some lead paint.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson

Famous quotes with Pruning

  • Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
    Red Auerbach
  • Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
    Francis Bacon
  • This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.
    William Bligh
  • Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
    Margaret Fuller
  • And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
    Isaiah

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