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What (who) is cull - definition

REMOVAL OF REPRODUCTIVE ANIMALS FROM THE FLOCK

Cull; Kangaroo culling; Culling selection; Culled; Culls; Thinning the herd; Thin the herd; Zoothanasia; Bird culling; Bird cull; Culling wildlife; Wildlife culling

cull

(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

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Cull is also a noun.

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

N-COUNT

• culling

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

N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp

cull

v. (D; tr.) to cull from

cull

¦ verb

1. reduce the population of (a wild animal) by selective slaughter.

send (an unwanted farm animal) to be slaughtered.

2. obtain from a variety of sources: anecdotes culled from Greek and Roman history.

¦ noun a selective slaughter of wild animals.

?a livestock animal selected for killing.

Derivatives

culler noun

Origin

ME: from OFr. coillier, based on L. colligere (see collect¹).

Wikipedia

Culling

In biology, culling is the process of segregating organisms from a group according to desired or undesired characteristics. In animal breeding, it is the process of removing or segregating animals from a breeding stock based on a specific trait. This is done to exaggerate desirable characteristics, or to remove undesirable characteristics by altering the genetic diversity of the population. For livestock and wildlife, culling often refers to the act of killing removed animals based on their individual characteristics, such as their sex or species membership, or as a means of preventing infectious disease transmission.

In fruits and vegetables, culling is the sorting or segregation of fresh harvested produce into marketable lots, with the non-marketable lots being discarded or diverted into food processing or non-food processing activities. This usually happens at collection centres located at, or close to farms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culling

Examples of use of cull

1. Hunters and protesters have been making their way to cull Canada‘s annual harp seal hunt gets under way on Saturday amid furious debate over the controversial cull.

2. Having presided over the greatest cull of livestock Britain had ever seen, she is leaving just as bird flu and the greatest cull of poultry probably starts.

3. Apparently over 300 people were involved in the turkey cull.

4. Kangaroo protection groups hailed the halt in the cull plans as a victory – until yesterday‘s shock announcement that the cull would go ahead after all.

5. Nikolic said that left a cull as the only option.