Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
bourgeons non débourrés
English translation:
unopened buds
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Daniel Bouchard
Jan 8, 2013 20:56
11 yrs ago
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French term
bourgeons non débourrés
French to English
Science
Botany
"Pour chaque plant observé, le nombre de bourgeons débourrés et non débourrés sera compté, assumant que les bourgeons non débourrés seront des dommages de gels hivernaux."
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Proposed translations
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| 4 +4 | unopened buds |
philgoddard
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| 4 +1 | unbroken buds |
Miranda Joubioux (X)
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| 3 | buds destroyed by frost |
SafeTex
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| 4 -2 | the buds which did not bloom or falled |
Salih YILDIRIM
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Proposed translations
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unopened buds
Thanks to babelfish for the following helpful definition:
Débourrer
Faire s'ouvrir les bourgeons, en parlant d'un arbre, d'un arbuste, voire du bourgeon lui-même.
Débourrer
Faire s'ouvrir les bourgeons, en parlant d'un arbre, d'un arbuste, voire du bourgeon lui-même.
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Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Victoria Britten
9 mins
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| agree |
B D Finch
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| agree |
Evans (X)
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| agree |
Cetacea
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buds destroyed by frost
This might be controversial but an English speaker would never say anything close to the French here.
Buds are destroyed by the frost and I don't ever remember hearing anything else even remotely like the French here
The compound noun is frost damage
https://www.google.fr/search?q=frost damage&hl=en&tbo=u&rlz=...
Buds are destroyed by the frost and I don't ever remember hearing anything else even remotely like the French here
The compound noun is frost damage
https://www.google.fr/search?q=frost damage&hl=en&tbo=u&rlz=...
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
philgoddard
: This would create a circular statement - the buds destroyed by frost are the buds destroyed by frost.
40 mins
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| neutral |
Victoria Britten
: agree with phil, but also think the French is weird: "assumant"?
53 mins
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-2
7 hrs
Salih YILDIRIM
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the buds which did not bloom or falled
Imho
Peer comment(s):
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Kim Metzger
: "falled"? Please explain.
1 min
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| disagree |
Cetacea
: There is a term for "the buds which did not bloom", and what are "falled" buds?
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unbroken buds
This is the term used in forestry.
See:
http://journal.ashspublications.org/content/131/2/209.full.p...
The breaking of buds is more evocative than the opening of buds, since with the word opening we don't know how much they have opened.
This is a problem my son (forester) talks to me about quite often. If a tree's buds start to break too early and the frost comes along then the fragile buds die and the effort the tree has to make to produce new ones can prove fatal (depending on age, species, etc.), particularly if later it suffers from drought.
See:
http://journal.ashspublications.org/content/131/2/209.full.p...
The breaking of buds is more evocative than the opening of buds, since with the word opening we don't know how much they have opened.
This is a problem my son (forester) talks to me about quite often. If a tree's buds start to break too early and the frost comes along then the fragile buds die and the effort the tree has to make to produce new ones can prove fatal (depending on age, species, etc.), particularly if later it suffers from drought.
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