Meaning & use
Secateurs
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A pair of pruning shears used for cutting stems and small branches in gardening.
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She trimmed the rose bushes with a sharp pair of secateurs.
He kept his secateurs oiled so they would slice cleanly through woody stems.
A note on using this word
Almost always used in the plural, like 'scissors'; the term is more common in British English than in American English, which favors 'pruning shears.'
Words with a similar meaning
pruning shearsclippers
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