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litterfall

noun

Etymology

From litter + fall.

  1. inherited from *fallą✻
  2. inherited from fealle — “trap, snare”
  3. inherited from feall
  4. inherited from fal
  5. inherited from *h₃elh₁-✻ — “to collapse, fall; to destroy”
  6. inherited from *fallaną✻ — “to fall”
  7. inherited from *fallan✻ — “to fall”
  8. inherited from feallan — “to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”
  9. inherited from fallen
  10. compounded as litterfall — “litter + fall”

Definitions

  1. Plant material that falls to the ground, such as leaves from trees.

    • Litterfall is provided for as long as the mature forest exists.

  2. The total mass of plant material falling to the ground per unit area, or the mass…

    The total mass of plant material falling to the ground per unit area, or the mass collected at a specific site.

    • The remaining forest types had similar mean litterfalls ranging from 3333 to 6484 kg ha⁻¹ year⁻¹

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for litterfall. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA