CUTTING

Cutting

Plant cutting, also known as striking or cloning, is a technique for vegetatively propagating plants in which a piece of the stem or root of the source plant is placed in a suitable medium such as moist soil, potting mix, coir or rock wool. The cutting produces new roots, stems, or both, and thus becomes a new plant independent of the parent.

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cutting

Noun

  1. The action of the verb to cut.
    How many different cuttings can this movie undergo?
  2. A section removed from the larger whole.
  3. A newspaper clipping.
  4. A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
  5. An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
    The actor had to make his cutting shorter to fit the audition time.
  6. The editing of film or other recordings.
  7. Self-harm; the act of cutting one's own skin.
  8. A narrow passage, dug for a road, railway or canal to go through.

Verb

cutting

Adjective

  1. That is used for cutting.
    I need some sort of cutting utensil to get through this shrink wrap.
  2. Of remarks, criticism, etc., potentially hurtful.
    The director gave the auditioning actors cutting criticism.


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