die back in English

noun
1
a condition in which a tree or shrub begins to die from the tip of its leaves or roots backward, owing to disease or an unfavorable environment.
The tree seems to be experiencing dieback similar to fire blight.
verb

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1. The leaves die back a few weeks after the flowers have faded.

2. During drought seasons, some treetops die back, but the trees do not die outright.

3. Other Annuals, like alyssum, produce beautiful flowers that die back during the heat of the summer

4. Blackberry bushes grow canes that produce fruit in the second year of life, and then once finished die back

5. Herbaceous layer: Plants in this layer die back to the ground every winter (if winters are cold enough, that is).

6. 9 The frost causes the bracken to die back and thereby opens up the canopy to let in more light.

7. Whenever in the past I have had a die back in the Coralline algae, I started to look for parameter problems

8. Researchers are conducting surveys of some 300,000 acres of northern hardwood forest to determine the cause and extent of regional die back and mortality.

9. Though Bluebeard is technically a shrub, it should be treated as a perennial in the Midwest because it tends to die back in harsh winters.

10. Blooms at Belle Mead Perennials usually grow and bloom over the spring and summer, die back in the winter, and grow back the following spring

11. Coffee bushes deficient in potash defoliate easily after a heavy crop or during a dry spell. Prolongedm, severe potassium deficiency results in die-back of branches or the death of the entire tree.

12. The colonization cycle comprises a growth phase when the fungus forms large intracellular coils, host cytoplasm proliferates and the starch content of the plastids decreases, followed by senescence when the hyphae die back and aggregate into large masses.