Pollard

(noun.) a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed.

(noun.) a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage.

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• A fire was burning under a pollard thorn a few paces off, over which three kettles hung in a row. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

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