sarculation

CIDE DICTIONARY

sarculation, n. [L. sarculatio. See Sarcle.].

 A weeding, as with a hoe or a rake.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

sarculation

Fewness

N fewness, paucity, small number, small quantity, rarity, infrequency, handful, maniple, minority, exiguity, reduction, weeding, elimination, sarculation, decimation, eradication, few, scant, scanty, thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered, spotty, few and far between, exiguous, infrequent, rari nantes, hardly any, scarcely any, to be counted on one's fingers, reduced, unrepeated, rarely, here and there.