<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>To select and remove from a group, especially to discard or destroy as inferior: When I cull the smaller curved saplings, I'm careful to protect and nurture the straighter and larger trees.</li><li>To discard unwanted parts or remove choice parts from (a group): Ranchers must decide whether to buy expensive feed or cull their herds to weather the drought.</li><li>To collect; gather; pluck: Quotations are culled from a variety of literature, diaries and letters, local histories, journals, and newspapers.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The act of culling.</li><li>Something culled, especially something picked out and put aside as inferior.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>