denude (alt. denudate, n. denudation)
1. To strip, remove all covering, as tornadoes may denude all trees of leaves. 2. To lay bare, as a hill from erosion. 3. The total destruction of plant and animal life by physical or biotic means.
Denuded Naked through the loss of covering.
Determinate Said of an inflorescence when the terminal flower opens first and the prolongation of the axis is thereby arrested.
Likewise, lemon verbena (Aloysia triphylla) becomes embarrassingly denuded during the winter, making it useless in the kitchen right when you need indoor herbs most desperately.
Trees were the most noticeable casualties: The hurricane had snapped longleaf pine trees in half, uprooted some magnolias, and bent red cedars so their tops touched the ground. But the live oaks, denuded of leaves and missing some branches, stood.
of pasture overgrown with poison hemlock, Canadian thistle, musk thistle, and spurge. It was tough to imagine the pasture being restored to prairie grass, but the herd seemed to be making progress. In sections of the pasture, clusters of denuded ...
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