Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pollard

2 senses of pollard

Sense 1
pollard -- (a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage)
       => tree -- (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Sense 2
pollard -- (a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed)
       => ruminant -- (any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb pollard

1 sense of pollard

Sense 1
poll, pollard -- (convert into a pollard; "pollard trees")
       => snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back -- (cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden")