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English translation: layering (viticulture)

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Italian term or phrase:	provanatura
English translation:	layering (viticulture)
Entered by:	Rachel Fell

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16:01 Nov 24, 2005

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Agriculture / vine growing

Italian term or phrase: profanatura

wood from the forest was buried by the vine grower in "fossi di profanatura"

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Alexander Chisholm KudoZ activity Questions: 3058 (none open) (21 without valid answers) (9 closed without grading) Answers: 197
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layering

Explanation:
layering in trenches

Voce di origine sett., deriv. del lat. propa¯go -i°nis 'propaggine'
Definizione s. f. (agr.) tipo di propaggine multipla usato un tempo in viticoltura per sostituire un ceppo vecchio.
Hazan Garzanti - http://www.garzantilinguistica.it/interna_ita.html

All grape cultivars can be propagated by layering. This method is used primarily
for replacing missing vines in established vineyards. ...
ohioline.osu.edu/b919/0006.html

Another method is known as layering. This is done by bending down a branch of a
mature vine and forcing it to grow along a shallow trench in the ground. ...
www.controverscial.com/Vine.htm

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Thanks to all who answered, especially Marion for the very clear explanation.
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layering

Rachel Fell

an old-fashioned multi-layering technique

marionclarion

vine-growing furrows

Helen Godfrey

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vine-growing furrows

Explanation:
Source Eurodicautom:
method of layering vines (used formerly in Champagn area) , and consisting of burrying the whole vine or a part o it in the soil, in order to increase the number of vines or to replace them.

The above is the most intelligible way I can come up with of translating this and it might be worth putting the actually meaning in a footnote imo.

Good luck

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Helen Godfrey
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provanatura

layering

Rachel Fell
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Thanks to all who answered, especially Marion for the very clear explanation.

4 hrs confidence:

an old-fashioned multi-layering technique

Explanation:
an old-fashioned multi-layering technique used to substitute an old vine
provanatura [pro-va-na-tù-ra] n.f. [pl. -e] (agr.) tipo di propaggine multipla usato un tempo in viticoltura per sostituire un ceppo vecchio ¶ Voce di origine sett., deriv. del lat. propago -inis ‘propaggine’.

(c) Petrini S.r.l. Garzanti Linguistica, 2004

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