CULL


Meaning of CULL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kʌl ]

( culls, culling, culled)

1.

If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.

All this, needless to say, had been culled second-hand from radio reports...

Laura was passing around photographs she’d culled from the albums at home.

VERB : be V-ed from n , V n from n

2.

To cull animals means to kill the weaker animals in a group in order to reduce their numbers.

To save remaining herds and habitat, the national parks department is planning to cull 2000 elephants.

VERB : V n

Cull is also a noun.

In the reserves of Zimbabwe and South Africa, annual culls are already routine.

N-COUNT

• cull‧ing

The culling of seal cubs has led to an outcry from environmental groups.

N-UNCOUNT : usu with supp

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