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exclosure (ik-SKLOH-zhur) - n., an area from which intruders (such as animals) are excluded by fencing or similar means.
An enclosure keeps the animals within an area, an exclosure keeps them out -- excludes them. You might want to do this, for example, to let a field recover enough to be grazed on. Or to keep the cows out of the corn. Coined around 1915 on the model of enclosure, using the prefix ex- in the sense of out of.
---L.
An enclosure keeps the animals within an area, an exclosure keeps them out -- excludes them. You might want to do this, for example, to let a field recover enough to be grazed on. Or to keep the cows out of the corn. Coined around 1915 on the model of enclosure, using the prefix ex- in the sense of out of.
---L.
