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> there is a very good English word with this exact same meaning as written in this sentence: grafting.

Grafting is joining cuttings from one tree to a rootstock of another. That is not what's going on here at all, it's limited to a single tree.

Something like "selective pollarding", maybe, but that's very far from being a common English word. And as I said, most pollarding I have seen is nowhere as straight and tall as this.



Exactly. Which you cannot possibly know from the cited sentence.




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