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- Dictionaryculling/ˈkʌlɪŋ/
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- 1. reduction of a wild animal population by selective slaughter: "kangaroo culling"
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CULLING definition: 1. present participle of cull 2. When people cull animals, they kill them, especially the weaker…. Learn more.
The meaning of CULL is to select from a group : choose. How to use cull in a sentence.
Culling definition: the act or process of selecting and removing desirable or undesirable individuals from a group. See examples of CULLING used in a sentence.
to collect parts or pieces of something to use for another purpose: She went to strange lands to cull recipes for her book. If you cull animals or plants, you kill or remove them: to cull growing herds before they run out of food. culling dead timber. (Definition of cull from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
cull. verb [ T ] uk / kʌl / us / kʌl /. When people cull animals, they kill them, especially the weaker members of a particular group of them, in order to reduce or limit their number: The plan to cull large numbers of baby seals has angered environmental groups.
Cull definition: to select and remove from a group, especially to discard or destroy as inferior. See examples of CULL used in a sentence.
To cull means to select or gather. If you decide to make a literary anthology, you must cull the best possible stories and then arrange them in a pleasing manner. When you use cull as a verb, the things you gather can be the good or bad ones from a group.
cull in British English. (kʌl ) verb (transitive) 1. to choose or gather the best or required examples. 2. to take out (an animal, esp an inferior one) from a herd. 3. to reduce the size of (a herd or flock) by killing a proportion of its members.
Define culling. culling synonyms, culling pronunciation, culling translation, English dictionary definition of culling. tr.v. culled , cull·ing , culls 1. To pick out from others; select. 2. To gather; collect. 3. To remove rejected members or parts from . n. Something picked...
Definition of cull verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
