Seedlings which are nearly defoliatedevery year remain in the grass stage and eventually die.
Larval development is usually completed by the time the new needles come out, giving heavily defoliated trees a tufted appearance.
Cottonwood may be prematurely defoliated or even killed by successive attacks.
During this period, stands of young seedlings may be completely defoliated and the stems girdled.
The elm spanworm feeds upon hickories and a variety of hardwoods; white oak, chestnut oak, and northern red oak are the species most heavily defoliated in the Appalachians.
The trees from which a part of the fruit had been removed were defoliated and all but the large limbs were killed.
In the case of walnuts and pecans, especially, but also others than are not sprayed for the control of diseases and insects, it is not uncommon for the trees to become defoliated in late summer and while bearing a crop of nuts.
That one was defoliatedby the canker worm and then by the tent caterpillar and this is the fourth set of leaves it has put forth this year.
It is defoliated by both the tent caterpillar and the canker worm.
Nursery-size trees are more extensively defoliated than larger ones.
Mr. Bernath's place, were about one-fourth defoliated in mid-August.
Not infrequently the attacks of mildew are so severe that the vines are defoliatedbefore mid-season.
As they approach maturity their appetites become voracious and their presence is often shown by the defoliated condition of the branches.
There is one record of the caterpillars having been found feeding upon the hackberry, and also of their having fed greedily upon the leaves of rose bushes, and still another of their having almost defoliated a pear tree.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defoliated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
