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codominant: a) pertaining to the species in a mixed crop that are about equally numerous and vigorous; b) pertaining to one of the four main crown classes recognised on a basis of relative status and condition in the crop, more particularly for establishing thinning grades for pure regular crops; the trees have their crowns in the upper canopy but are less free than the dominants and freer and taller than the dominated
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

dominant: a) (ecology) that component of a community, typically a species, which exerts the greatest influence on its character because of its life-form and/or great abundance; b) (ecology/silviculture) generally, an individual or species of the upper layers of the canopy; c) (silviculture) more particularly, one of the 4 main crown classes recognised, on a basis of relative status and condition in the crop, for establishing thinning grades for pure regular crops; the trees have their crowns in the uppermost layers of the canopy and are largely free-growing; d) (silviculture) of a species in a mixed crop, that is the most numerous and vigorous
Category: Botany and zoology

predominant: pertaining to a tree whose crown has grown above the general level of the upper canopy
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

subdominant: a) (plant ecology) a component of a community, typically a species which, though locally (co-)dominant, exerts much less dominance than the widespread dominant does; b) (silviculture) more particularly, a species in a mixed crop that does not equal the (co-)dominants in number and vigour
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

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