tỉa lá
Definition
- Verb (Agriculture/Horticulture):
- To prune leaves: The act of selectively removing leaves from a plant, typically to improve its health, shape, or fruit production by allowing better air circulation and light penetration.
- To thin out leaves: The process of removing some leaves to reduce density, often to prevent disease or to direct the plant's energy towards developing fruits or flowers.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Người làm vườn đang tỉa lá cho cây cam. (The gardener is pruning the leaves of the orange tree.)
- Cần tỉa lá bớt để cây cà chua không bị nấm. (You need to thin out the leaves so the tomato plant doesn't get fungus.)
- Tôi tỉa lá khô trên cây hoa hồng. (I am pruning the dry leaves from the rose bush.)
Advanced Usage
- "tỉa lá tạo tán": to prune leaves to shape the canopy.
- Họ tỉa lá tạo tán cho cây cảnh. (They prune the leaves to shape the bonsai tree's canopy.)
Variants and Related Words
Tỉa cành (v): to prune branches.
- Tỉa cành quan trọng như tỉa lá. (Pruning branches is as important as pruning leaves.)
Tỉa bớt (v): to thin out, to remove some of.
- Tỉa bớt lá non để quả phát triển. (Thin out the young leaves so the fruit can develop.)
Synonyms
- Prune: to trim a plant by cutting away dead or overgrown parts.
- Thin out: to remove some plants or parts of plants to improve the growth of the rest.
- Trim: to make something neat by cutting away irregular parts.
Related Idioms
- Tỉa lá sửa cành: to prune leaves and trim branches (often used metaphorically to mean making careful adjustments or refinements).
- Công việc biên tập giống như tỉa lá sửa cành. (Editing work is like pruning leaves and trimming branches.)