| Term |
Definition |
French |
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Water bombing |
The act of dropping suppressants (water or short-term retardant) on a wildfire from an aircraft in flight. |
Arrosage aérien |
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Watershed |
The area drained by an underground or surface stream, or by a system of streams. |
Bassin hydrographique |
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Webworm |
Organism that spins a silk shelter in which to hide or feed. |
Tisseuse |
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Wedge system |
A modification of the strip shelterwood system in which cuttings begin as narrow, interior, wedge-shaped strips with the apex into the prevailing wind, and are then successively enlarged and advanced; regeneration is mainly natural. |
Mode de régénération par coupes progressives en coin |
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Weed tree |
Any tree of a species having little or no economic value on the site in question. |
Indésirable |
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Weeding |
A release treatment in stands during the seedling stage that eliminates or suppresses undesirable vegetation regardless of crown position. |
Désherbage |
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Whip |
1. A bare-root hardwood planting stock.
2. Any slender tree that the wind causes to lacerate the crowns of its neighbors. |
Fouet |
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Wildland |
Uncultivated land other than fallow. Land currently little influenced by human activity. |
Friche |
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Wildling |
syn.: wilding, wild seedling
A naturally grown, in contrast to a nursery-raised, seedling, sometimes used in forest planting when nursery stock is scarce. |
Semis naturel |
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Wilt |
Drying out, loss of colour and shape of leaves, then twigs and branches, caused by a lack of water or the presence of toxins. |
Flétrissement |
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Wind bend |
Condition of trees having a curved stem as a consequence of wind action or compression due to heavy load on the crown of the tree.
cf. windfirm |
Courbé par le vent |
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Wind lean |
Condition of trees having a leaning stem, result of partial uprooting or wind action.
cf. windfirm |
Couché par le vent |
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Wind rock |
Movement of tree stems in the wind, which may lead to chafing of the collar and sometimes of the roots, and, in very wet soil, loosening of the ground. |
Balancement au vent |
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Windbreak |
A small-scale shelterbelt or other barrier, natural or artificial, maintained against the wind. |
Brise-vent |
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Windfall |
1. A tree or trees thrown down or with their stems broken off or other parts blown down by the wind.
2. Any area on which the trees have been thrown down or broken by the wind. |
Chablis |
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Windfirm |
Of trees, able to withstand strong winds, i.e., to resist windthrow, windrocking, and major breakage. Such trees may not remain upright but show wind lean or wind bend or both. |
Stable au vent |
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Windrow |
Slash, brushwood, etc., concentrated along a line so as to clear the intervening ground between two of them. |
Andain |
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Windrow planting |
Planting between the two lanes created in windrowing. |
Plantation sur entrandain |
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Windthrow |
Uprooting by the wind. 2. Tree or trees so uprooted. |
Déracinement par le vent |
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Witches' broom |
Excessive proliferation of twigs from one location on a branch or several locations close together. The twigs in a broom are erect and compacted. |
Balai de sorcière |
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Wolf tree |
A tree, generally overtopping and of poor form, that occupies more growing space than its commercial value warrants. |
Arbre loup |
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Wood |
A plant tissue composed essentially of lignified fibers of cellulose and hemicellulose. Wood is present in the stems of trees and shrubs where it ensures support and conducts water. (See also cellulose and lignin.)
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Bois |
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Wood connection technologies |
Fastenings (nails, screws, bolts, pressure-applied plates, etc.) that join wood to wood, metal, concrete, plastic or any other solid material. |
Technologies de fixation du bois |
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Wood-plastic composite |
A mixture or mechanical combination of wood and plastic resins that are solid in a finished state, are mutually insoluble and differ in chemical nature. |
Composite bois plastique |
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Woody debris |
Dead and decomposing wood of various sizes. |
Débris ligneux |
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Woody tissue |
Plant tissue containing lignin, the main component of wood. |
Ligneux |
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Working group |
An aggregate of forest stands, or forest stand and forest sites, which are grouped for the purpose of applying a common set of silvicultural treatments (also called operational group). |
Section d’aménagement |
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Worm-like |
Resembling a worm. |
Vermiforme |
