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masting

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-003950

Masting is the intermittent synchronous production of large amount of seed (or flowers, fruits, seed crops) at irregular intervals by a plant population.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-003950
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
Synonymsmast fruiting; mast seeding
ReferencesNAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsoreproduction; seed productivity
TranslationsSpanish: dispersión de frutos y semillas
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-003950",
  "term": "masting",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Masting is the intermittent synchronous production of large amount of seed (or flowers, fruits, seed crops) at irregular intervals by a plant population.",
  "synonyms": [
    "mast fruiting",
    "mast seeding"
  ],
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "reproduction",
    "seed productivity"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "dispersión de frutos y semillas"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/masting/"
}

Record 3,950 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.