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- Dictionarycull/kʌl/
verb
- 1. reduce the population of (a wild animal) by selective slaughter: "he sees culling deer as a necessity" Similar
- 2. select from a large quantity; obtain from a variety of sources: "anecdotes culled from Greek and Roman history" Similar
noun
- 1. a selective slaughter of animals: "fishermen are to campaign for a seal cull"
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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)
: to reduce or control the size of (something, such as a herd) by removal (as by hunting or slaughter) of especially weak or sick individuals. The town issued hunting licenses in order to cull the deer population. culling a herd of cattle. also : to hunt or kill (individuals) for culling. culling diseased cows. culled hundreds of deer. culler noun.
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.
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. 4. to gather (flowers, fruit, etc) 5.
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 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 meaning: 1 : to select or choose (someone or something) from a group usually + from; 2 : to control the size of (a group of animals) by killing some animals.
To select and gather (flowers or fruit); pick. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To examine (a collection or group) in order to select desired parts or, esp., to discard or destroy unwanted parts. To cull a herd. Webster's New World.
Jun 17, 2024 · cull (third-person singular simple present culls, present participle culling, simple past and past participle culled) To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group). To gather, collect . To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
cull meaning, definition, what is cull: to kill animals so that there are not to...: Learn more.
