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quenouille training

quenouille training noun: a method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.

Noun

quenouille training (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.
    • The French quenouille training is performed with dwarf stocks, but the trees are mor thrifty and durable when grafted on their own stocks, and kept within proper bounds by root pruning, after Mr. Rivers' method, explained in a previous page.1849, Andrew Jackson Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America, page 37

Origin of quenouille training

French quenouille (“distaff”).

Questions about quenouille training

What does quenouille training mean?
Quenouille training means a method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.
What part of speech is quenouille training?
Quenouille training is a noun.

Words near quenouille training in the dictionary

  1. quenks
  2. Quenland
  3. Quenneville
  4. Quennevilles
  5. quenouille
  6. quenouille training
  7. quenouilles
  8. quenselite
  9. quenstedtite
  10. quent
  11. Quentin

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