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thinnings
n. plants that have been removed in order to improve the growth of the remainder
Usage examples of "thinnings".
The last two digits of each are below the resolving power of a light microscope, and eliminating them leaves reported thinnings of 7 and 10 microns.
But then, that was perfectly all right with Devi, since her memories were all in her head, too, along with (she assumed) the temporary and unconfirmable thinnings of reality she had witnessed when Christa had played.
These deposits represent the results of the thinnings of kailiauk herds by the red savages.
But the edges of that mental datum feathered off into thinnings of indistinction in the deeptrained fuzzbundle of his mind.