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. --
In the 0.25-ha plot, 831 living trees and 512 dead trees and stumps with a dbh > 1 cm were sampled yielding a total branch area (tba) of 2265 m2.
In places the contact between tuff and ignimbrite coincides with the in situ and in growth position stumps of petrified trees.
The trees have "spectral arms," their branches are "disfigured with wounds" and rotting stumps are compared with "black teeth [rising] from green gums" (212; ch. 19).
The main economic impact is caused when weevils emerge from stumps on clearfell areas and feed on the bark of the main stems of young conifers replanted on the area.
As we all know, when stumped by some difficult (conscious and linguistically formulated) problem, it often helps to sleep on it, or to turn our conscious thinking to other matters.
The netting diameter allows easy access of rainwater as well as light and wind and sufficient heat transfer such that it maintains conditions similar to those around uncovered stumps.
In the 1-, 5- and 8-y-old sites, >50% of the sprouting stumps had three or more living sprouts.
The trap presents an alternative to time-consuming excavation of stumps for the host and its parasitoid.
