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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation diameter at breast height

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  • initialism botany diameter at breast height, a standard method of expressing the diameter of the trunk or bole of a standing tree. The diameter is measured at the height of an adult's breast.

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Examples

  • # Get the database handle and do something with it. my $dbh = $conn - > dbh;

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2009

  • $dbh = DBI - > connect ( "dbi: Sybase: foo", ...) but what it got back was a DBD:: Gofer dbh, as if the application has executed

    Planet Perl 2008

  • Foresters like to compare trees using "dbh," the diameter breast high.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001

  • White fir is a large coniferous tree, growing up to 55 m tall and having a diameter-at-breast-height (dbh) of up to 1 to 2 m, depending on location.

    White fir 2009

  • The diversity in topography also accounts for the diversity of pine-oak communities: Pseudotsuga and Pinus constitute the biggest trees (50-150 cm dbh), and are abundant in the highest parts of the Sierra.

    Sierra Madre Occidental pine-oak forests 2007

  • It appears to be a Jeffery Pine that is over 27.5 m tall and a diameter at breast height dbh of over 244 cm.

    Underwater in the Sierra Nevadas « Climate Audit 2006

  • When you did your first dendro population study, you were probably instructed to randomly core lots of trees of different dbh, after reading some journal articles.

    Briffa: Large-Scale Decline in Ring Widths « Climate Audit 2006

  • The circumference of her main trunk at breast height is 3.2 meters, so her approximate dbh is 1.0 meters, or roughly 39 inches.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001

  • Cultivated specimens receiving regular irrigation have reached 10 m tall and 10 cm dbh in 10 years.

    Chapter 10 1996

  • (Leguminosae Mimosoideae) is a large thorny tree attaining heights of 35 m and diameters at breast height (dbh) of 100 cm (Nielsen 1992, Heyne 1950).

    Chapter 10 1996

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