aftergrowth

American  

[af-ter-grohth, ahf-] / ˈæf tərˌgroʊθ, ˈɑf- /

noun

1. a second growth, as of crops or timber, after one harvesting, cutting, etc.; second crop.

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Etymology

Origin of aftergrowth

First recorded in 1810–20; after + growth

Example Sentences

It was important to distinguish the feeble and obscure elements from the powerful and brilliant aftergrowth; which indeed was fully realized only in chosen minds, and in them, hardly before old age.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander

It dawned on him gradually that she was a woman of rich experience, and that her tranquillity was an aftergrowth, a development—"That was in my discontented days," she said once.

From Watersprings by Benson, Arthur Christopher

But from such a wrecked and blasted soil what aftergrowth could ever spring?

From Olive A Novel by Bowers, G.

Vabres was a bishopric which came into being as an aftergrowth of a Benedictine foundation of the ninth century, though its episcopal functions only began in 1318, and ceased with the Revolutionary suppression.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

Swiftly he descended the ridge and, gliding silently into the aftergrowth of spindling saplings that reared their sickly heads among the stumps, gained the rear of the shack.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)