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English translation: plants


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French term or phrase:Pieds
English translation:plants
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14:55 Apr 20, 2011
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Tech/Engineering - Agriculture / Trees
French term or phrase: Pieds
Les espèces jeunes se font de plus en plus rares ; et les *pieds* qui produisent actuellement sont très âgés. Si des mesures ne sont pas prises à temps l’espèce pourra disparaitre
jenbikkal
Local time: 11:58
plants
Explanation:
In general.

More specifically it might be a vine stock. But pieds means individual plants.
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Gilla Evans
Local time: 16:58
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thanks!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4plants
Gilla Evans
4 +2those (trees)
kashew
3 +1stumpxxxmediamatrix
4stools
Mark Bossanyi


Discussion entries: 3





  

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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
plants


Explanation:
In general.

More specifically it might be a vine stock. But pieds means individual plants.

Gilla Evans
Local time: 16:58
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jean-Louis S.: or trees
1 min
  -> yes, individual plants or trees in this case, thanks jlsjr
agree  John Speese: Agree, and "stocks" also came to my mind when I read the question.
20 mins
  -> thanks, John. We certainly call them stocks when it refers to vines, not so sure about other trees.
agree  Jeux de Mots
22 mins
  -> thanks, J de M
agree  philgoddard: Trees.
13 hrs
  -> In the case of baobabs, trees, thanks Phil
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
pied
stump


Explanation:
Assuming it refers to trees which are coppiced, such as chestnut.

coppice stump – Dictionary definition of coppice stump ... - [ Traducir esta página ]Definition of coppice stump – Our online dictionary has coppice stump information from A Dictionary of Plant Sciences dictionary. Encyclopedia.com: English ...
www.encyclopedia.com › ... › January 1998 - En caché

30, 48, La Chataigne dans la langue - [ Traducir esta página ]Lio : lien, petits rejets du pied de châtaignier pour lier les fagots ... Après la récolte les troupeaux de chèvres et moutons passent pour manger les restes et les rejets ... Talho lo como un castagné - taille le comme un châtaignier ...
www.causses-cevennes.com/flore/chataignes/cevennes.htm - En caché

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Lexikon: Landschafts- und Stadtplanung - Resultado de Google Books
Klaus-Jürgen Evert, International Federation of Landscape Architects - 2001 - Architecture - 1068 páginas
Baumstumpf [m], Stock [m], Wurzelstock [m]; el tree stump |s] (Woody base of ... (Living tree stump, capable of producing sprouts for regeneration [*coppice ...
books.google.cl/books?isbn=3540679081...Prior's Coppice - Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust - [ Traducir esta página ]Prior's Coppice is an ancient ash-maple and ash-wych elm woodland, ... but the stump, or 'stool', throws up numerous poles, which can be harvested every few years. ... Rare visitors have included pied flycatcher and redstart. ...
lrwt.org.uk/nature-reserves/priors-coppice/ - En caché - Similares

xxxmediamatrix
Local time: 11:58
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  gallagy2: the way I read this, stumps producing shoots
10 hrs
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stools


Explanation:
If this refers to coppicing (as suggested by the fact that "les *pieds* qui produisent actuellement sont très âgés"), the term "coppice stools" is used to denote the stumps from which new shoots grow.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing
    Reference: http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=13...
Mark Bossanyi
Bulgaria
Local time: 18:58
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
those (trees)


Explanation:
e.g. those (trees) producing fruit (?) or whatever...
Forget the pied thing!

kashew
France
Local time: 17:58
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 23

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rachel Fell: esp. if "young trees" has been used in the preceding bit
6 hrs
agree  Catharine Cellier-Smart: Definitely. I don't know where asker's text is from, but in Reunion Island French it's common to refer to a tree as a "pied de XXXX"
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