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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. abbr. diameter at breast height

Wiktionary

  1. 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.

Examples

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

    Softpedia - Windows - All

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

    Planet Perl

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

    grouse Diary Entry

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “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

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

    Chapter 10

  • “(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

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