0 the part of something such as a tree, tooth, arm, or leg that is left after most of it has been removed:
1 the three vertical wooden poles at which the ball is thrown in cricket
2 to be unable to answer a question or solve a problem because it is too difficult:
I'm completely stumped - how did she manage to escape?
3 to stomp
4 to travel around an area giving speeches and trying to get political support:
Hollywood stars stumped for the Democratic candidate.
5 If the person hitting the ball in cricket is stumped, their turn to try scoring points is ended by a member of the other team knocking the bails off the stumps with the ball while they are outside a safe area.
6 the part of a tree, arm, etc. that is left after another part has been removed
7 to confuse or cause someone to be unable to understand or explain something:
8 to talk in support of a politician or idea:
Taylor stumped for him throughout the state.
By convention tree diameter is measured at 1.30 m height, however, stumps were always lower, so diameter at the saw-plane was chosen.
The stumps were set in a matrix of regenerating vegetation and remnants of primary forest.
Approximately 1 cm was removed from the top of the stumps to avoid contamination, and the tissues underneath were sampled.
Fifty-five to 70% of the stumps produced sprouts.
Values in parentheses are numbers and percentages (last column) of stumps containing at least one living sprout.
Logging gaps were found by walking the skid trails and locating old tree stumps.
On one estate 'raw stumps were stuck into the ground and described as one year rubber'.
The trap presents an alternative to time-consuming excavation of stumps for the host and its parasitoid.
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剩餘部分, 樹墩,樹樁, (牙齒等的)殘餘部分…
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