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Title: Pivot, to
Original Title: Pivoter
Volume and Page: Vol. 12 (1765), p. 670
Author: Unknown
Translator: Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey]
Subject terms:
Gardening
Original Version (ARTFL): Link
Source: Russell, Terence M. and Anne Marie Thornton. Gardens and landscapes in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Used with permission.
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Citation (MLA): "Pivot, to." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.271>. Trans. of "Pivoter," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 12. Paris, 1765.
Citation (Chicago): "Pivot, to." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.271 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Pivoter," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 12:670 (Paris, 1765).

To pivot. The main root pivots when it grows straight down into the soil. [1]

Notes

1. It is then taprooted or ‘pivotante’.