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English translation: seed transplants


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Spanish term or phrase:mudas
English translation:seed transplants
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16:57 Jun 6, 2011
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Agriculture / Sugar Cane Production
Spanish term or phrase: mudas
Lo mas destacado en el sector sucroalcoholero ha sido el lanzamiento de la nueva plantadora PP1102 "Green System" que combina la mecanización de la siembra con "mudas" (semillas) producidas con tecnologia Plene
peterinmadrid
Local time: 20:58
seed transplants
Explanation:
RAE muda 8. f. Ur. Planta que se retira del almácigo para el trasplante.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-06-06 19:23:41 GMT)
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Mudas are plant starts or seedlings, not cuttings. Your text clearly indicates in brackets that they are from seeds More common in Portuguese than Spanish, perhaps explaining the inverted commas.
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patinba
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Local time: 14:58
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3seed transplantspatinba
4 +1stem cuttings | cuttingsMPGS
3seedlings
Vicky Rengifo
3settsxxxmediamatrix
3molts
Michael Powers (PhD)
2"buds"
Rachel Fell


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
molts


Explanation:
Collins Dictionary plus many hits on the Internet with "seeds" and "molting" or "molt" or "molts"

Mike

Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 13:58
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52 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
stem cuttings | cuttings


Explanation:
stem cutting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarcane#Cultivation
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharum_officinarum
http://biofabricasdemudas.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.ht...
el inicio de la cachaça

Cristóbal Colon trajo mudas de caña de azúcar para América en su viaje de descubrimiento, en 1493, y las plantó en el Caribe. Las plantas las trajo de las ...
http://www.armazemvieira.com.br/website/index.php?option=com...
Odebrecht Informa

La referencia, estipulada por la Unión de la Industria de Caña de Azúcar (Única) , .... Actualmente, el vivero comporta la producción de 30 mil mudas por ...
http://www.odebrechtonline.com.br/edicaoonline/2011/03/635/?...

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MPGS
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  MedTrans&More: just 'cuttings' is ok. this is by far the most common term in the UK.
21 mins
  -> Muchas gracias, MedTrans&More. Saludos :)
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36 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
seed transplants


Explanation:
RAE muda 8. f. Ur. Planta que se retira del almácigo para el trasplante.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-06-06 19:23:41 GMT)
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Mudas are plant starts or seedlings, not cuttings. Your text clearly indicates in brackets that they are from seeds More common in Portuguese than Spanish, perhaps explaining the inverted commas.

patinba
Argentina
Local time: 14:58
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agree  Charles Davis
8 mins
  -> Thank-you!

agree  neilmac: From "mudar".
13 hrs
  -> No doubt. Thanks!

agree  Claudia Luque Bedregal
18 hrs
  -> Gracias, Claudia!
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setts


Explanation:
Australian Primary Industries - Sugar Cane - [ Traducir esta página ]Sugar cane is grown from setts (cuttings from mature cane stalks) which are planted by machines ... www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/sugar.htm - En caché - Similares

xxxmediamatrix
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"buds"


Explanation:
not entirely sure, no more time to look now.

The Plene system, first announced in 2008, has been going through proving trials since then and should be ready for commercial launch by mid 2011. It is based on the production and planting of sugar cane segments, or buds, which are less than four centimetres in length. Daniel Bachner described how the Plene system offers real benefits in terms of the management of crop protection methods. The buds will be pre-treated with specific seed treatment technologies and other protectants maximising early plant development.

http://www.innovationmanagement.co.uk/articles/novel _techno...

Rachel Fell
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2 days2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
seedlings


Explanation:
mudas seems to be the portuguese term for seedlings


    Reference: http://www.wordreference.com/enpt/seedling
Vicky Rengifo
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