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cover crop

noun

  1. a crop, usually a legume, planted to keep nutrients from leaching, soil from eroding, and land from weeding over, as during the winter.


cover crop

noun

  1. a crop planted between main crops to prevent leaching or soil erosion or to provide green manure
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cover crop1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Example Sentences

Rye, which they once grew only as a cover crop to add nutrients when tilled into the soil, is now used to make their bottled-in-bond rye whiskey, generating favorable notice and revenue.

Once the spring comes along, Stein crimps the cover crop down with flattening boards, then covers it with more compost to start decomposing—facilitating the best possible environment in which to plant the cannabis.

I felt that I had made a mistake in not sowing a cover crop in my orchard the previous year.

When possible a cover crop should be put on fall plowed land where there is likely to be loss of plant food by leaching.

Cover crop, a crop to cover the soil during the interval between regular corps.

Thorough cultivation is practiced and the fall cover crop of oats, barley or clover is coming into favor.

The legumes fulfil the three requisites of the cover crop: protection, humus, and the storing of nitrogen.

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