cull
verbVerb Forms
Phrasal Verbspresent simple I / you / we / they cull | |
he / she / it culls | |
past simple culled | |
past participle culled | |
-ing form culling |
- cull something
to kill a number of wild animals from a group, especially in order to stop the group from becoming too large 部分捕杀,选择性宰杀(为防止动物种群量过多而杀掉其中一定数量) Oxford Collocations DictionaryCull is used with these nouns as the object:- elephant
- seal
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French coillier, based on Latin colligere, from col- ‘together’ + legere ‘choose or collect’.