winter-kills

Then they sit the eggs in winter, when there isn't quite as much to eat but they also aren't going to have to eat as much, then they have babies to feed in deep winter when there starts to be winter-kills and cold-kills lying around?

Owlflight Lackey, Mercedes 1997

This third growth winter-kills without injury to the tree, however.

Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917

The Broadview winter-kills with us, but it is not hard to graft it almost one hundred percent.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950