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Nov 23, 2009
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slash-and-burn



Pronunciation: (slash'un-bûrn'), [key]
adj.
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.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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