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# cull

verb (cull, culls, culled, culling); noun (a cull, culls)

«cull» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To cull animals means to kill some of them on purpose, to keep the group small or healthy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#m1)
2. To cull means to choose or collect things from many sources: «facts culled from books». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#m2)
3. (noun) A cull is an act of killing some animals in a group. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science and nature news it is about managing animal numbers, for example deer or pests; it is often argued about. In maths problems a cull reduces a population: subtract. Phrases: «a deer cull», «culled from».

### Examples

- The park plans to cull some of the deer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#x1)
- The farmer culled the sick hens. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#x2)
- The facts were culled from old newspapers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#x3)
- After a cull of 40, how many of the 300 deer are left? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#x4)
- Many people protested against the badger cull. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#x5)
- She culled the best photos for the album. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/#x6)

### Note

Sometimes a softer word for killing animals. Maths: a cull takes away from the number, so subtract. Not the same as «call» or «cool».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cull» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cull/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cull» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cull.html) on Mova free.