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slash-and-burn
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slash-and-burn (slas̸h′ən bʉrn′)
adjective
- of or having to do with a type of primitive forest agriculture in which fields are cleared by cutting down and burning vegetation
- extremely destructive in an indiscriminate way
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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