slash-and-burn
[ slash-uhn-burn ]
adjective
of a method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade.
Origin of slash-and-burn
1First recorded in 1935–40
Words Nearby slash-and-burn
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How to use slash-and-burn in a sentence
A circus actor dressed as Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff spat fire to dramatize slash-and-burn agriculture.
British Dictionary definitions for slash-and-burn
slash-and-burn
adjective
denoting a short-term method of cultivation in which land is cleared by destroying and burning trees and other vegetation for temporary agricultural use
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