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CT: The requirement to reduce carbon emissions has led to the development of alternative energy sources, including biomass for fossil fuel substitution. Forest harvesting residues are increasingly being used to supply biomass for heat and power generation in the UK and attention is now turning to the utilisation of tree stumps. Some private sector forestry companies in South Scotland have begun to extract stumps from harvested conifer plantation sites to provide biomass for local power plants.

S: GOVUK – http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/INFD-7P5J7P (last access: 12 December 2014)

N: 1. “part of a tree trunk left in the ground after felling,” mid-15c. (implied from late 13c. in surnames); from mid-14c. as “remaining part of a severed arm or leg;” from or cognate with Middle Low German stump (from adjective meaning “mutilated, blunt, dull”), Middle Dutch stomp “stump,” from Proto-Germanic stamp-, from PIE stebh– “post, stem; to support”).
2. The lower end of a tree remaining after the trunk has been cut off.

S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=stump&searchmode=none (last access: 12 December 2014). 2. TERMIUMPLUS.

SYN: 1. stub. 2. stock.

S: 1. TERMIUMPLUS; GDT. 2. GDT.

CR: biomass, biomass energy, bud pruning, [clear cutting], pruning, sapling, trimming.