dbh

See also: dbḥ and DBH

English

Alternative forms

• DBH

Noun

dbh (uncountable)

1. (botany) Initialism of 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.
   • 1999 June 4, Douglas Sheil et al., “Tree Species Diversity in Logged Rainforests”, in Science‎^[1], volume 284, number 5420, →DOI:

     We again found that the number of tree species in a sample of stems 20 cm dbh or larger is greater in selectively logged forest 8 years after the harvest than in nearby unlogged forest (t test, d.f.

Anagrams

• BHD, Bhd., HBD, HDB