0 the part of a tree left in the ground after the trunk has been cut down -- gốc cây
He sat on a (tree-)stump and ate his sandwiches.
1 the part of a limb, tooth, pencil etc remaining after the main part has been cut or broken off, worn away etc. -- chân, mẩu
2 in cricket, one of the three upright sticks forming the wicket. -- cọc gôn
3 to walk with heavy, stamping steps -- đi lộp cộp, cứng nhắc
4 to puzzle or baffle completely -- làm ai bí, gây bối rối
I’m stumped!
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.
