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picking herbs and wildflowers

summary

thinning (buds and branches)

picking mulberry leaves; mulberry-leaf pickers

pruning excess leaves; leaf thinning

Gardening, horticulture

removing extra buds (to promote the growth of those remaining); disbudding; fruit thinning

explaining; summarizing; indicating; outlining

Medicine

complete removal; total excision

to take a pinch of something (e.g. salt); to pick up in one's fingers

to pluck; to pick; to nip off

to pick out (with the fingers); to pull out

to throw out (e.g. of a bar); to drag out; to chuck out

to hold one's nose; to pinch one's nose

Idiomatic expression

to be confused; to be baffled; to be bewitched by a fox

to nip (something) in the bud

uncouth person; disgusting fellow; nuisance; outcast; bore

illegitimate child

hysterectomy

tonsillectomy

splenectomy

lumpectomy

tea-picking song

rape seedlings; pinched-off vegetable seedlings; young edible greens

picking; harvesting

castration