pollard
IPA: pˈɑɫɝd
Root Word: Pollard
noun
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- A town in Escambia County, Alabama, United States.
- A minor city in Clay County, Arkansas, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Victoria Township, Rice County, Kansas, United States.
- (often attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
- A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
- A hornless variety of domestic animal, as cattle or goats.
- (obsolete, rare) A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
- (now Australia) A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.
- (numismatics, historical) A 13th-century European coin minted as a debased counterfeit of the sterling silver penny of Edward I of England, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.
verb
- (horticulture) To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
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Examples of "pollard" in Sentences
- Pollard acknowledged the transmission.
- Pollard's rho algorithm for logarithms.
- The Pollard study is an example of this.
- Pollard rho this is not sub exponential.
- Pollard's clearance was reduced to secret.
- Pollard played college football at Purdue.
- Pollard wasn't paying attention evidently.
- Pollard clashed with virtually all of the contestants.
- Pollard can also be used as an adjective pollard tree .
- Pollard was also required to be evaluated by a psychiatrist.