cull

• vt. 選び出す；（花などを）集める；草をむしり取る
• n. 摘み取られて殺された動物；摘み取られた同等の動物
• n. （カルの）人名；（英文の）カール

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cull

cull: [15] Ultimately, cull is the same word as collect. It comes via Old French cuillir from Latin colligere ‘gather together’, whose past participial stem collēct- formed the original basis of English collect. The Latin verb was a compound formed from the prefix com- ‘together’ and legere ‘gather’ (source also of English elect, neglect, select, etc).
=> collect, elect, lecture, legend, neglect, select

cull (v.)

early 14c., "choose, select, pick; collect and gather the best things from a number or quantity," especially with reference to literary selections, from Old French cuiler "collect, gather, pluck, select" (12c., Modern French cueillir), from Latin colligere "gather together, collect," originally "choose, select" (see collect). Meaning "select livestock according to quality" is from 1889; notion of "select and kill (animals)," usually in the name of reducing overpopulation or improving the stock, is from 1934. Related: Culled; culling.

cull (n.)

"dupe, saphead," rogues' slang from late 16c., perhaps a shortening of cullion "base fellow," originally "testicle" (from French couillon, from Old French coillon "testicle; worthless fellow, dolt," from Latin coleus, literally "strainer bag;" see cojones), though another theory traces it to Romany (Gypsy) chulai "man." Also sometimes in the form cully, however some authorities assert cully was the canting term for "dupe" and cull was generic "man, fellow," without implication of gullibility. Compare also gullible.

cull (n.)

1610s, "a selection," from cull (v.). From 1791 as "flock animal selected as inferior;" 1958 as "a killing of animals deemed inferior."

1. the annual seal cull

アザラシの毎年の選択的殺処分

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2.To save remaining herds and habitat，the national parks department is planning to cull 2000 elephants.現存する獣群と生息地を救うため、国立公園部は2000頭の象を選択的に捕殺する計画だ。

3.It is usually good practice to cull the poorest prior to field planting.

通常、実践上の良い方法は出圃植栽前に最も弱い苗木を取り出すことである。

4.Said Dr. Cull to the high school students touring the laboratory.

カール博士は実験室を見学に来た高校生たちに語った。

5.Each autumn，the villagers will cull the sick members of the herd.

毎年秋になると、村人たちは家畜の群れの中の病弱さを摘出して殺す。