0 past simple and past participle of cull
1 When people cull animals, they kill them, especially the weaker members of a particular group of them, in order to reduce or limit their number:
Hamsters were culled and perfused and the schistosomes extracted 30-40 days post-reinfection.
Hamsters were culled and perfused and the schistosomes extracted 30 -40 days postreinfection.
The sows are assigned to the following pools : replacement gilts, batches and culled sows.
These are culled from folk traditions and, although there are no direct quotations, the music reflects familiar archetypes.
A statistical comparison of means indicated that the mean and the amplitude of variation in the number of sows culled reached equilibrium after eight cycles.
Birds culled as part of these control measures provided material for our study on density-dependent effects in helminth growth.
He removed the birds from their cages before they were humanely culled.
All voles were culled and weighed, and blood smears prepared from blood taken from the heart.
