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ground cover

or groundcover

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noun

the herbaceous plants and low shrubs in a forest, considered as a whole.
any of a variety of low-growing or trailing plants used to cover the ground in areas where grass is difficult to grow, as in dense shade or on steep slopes.

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Origin of ground cover

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby ground cover

ground cloth, ground color, ground connection, ground control, ground-controlled approach, ground cover, ground crew, ground dove, grounded, ground effect, ground elder
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Words related to ground cover

covert, earth, terra firma, turf, leaf mold

Example sentences from the Web for ground cover

  • He began to question Holden hopefully about the ground-cover outside.

    Operation: Outer Space|William Fitzgerald Jenkins

  • There were even trees of severely practical design, and underbrush and ground-cover equivalent to grass.

    This World Is Taboo|Murray Leinster

British Dictionary definitions for ground cover

ground cover

noun

  1. dense low herbaceous plants and shrubs that grow over the surface of the ground, esp, in a forest, preventing soil erosion or, in a garden, stifling weeds
  2. (as modifier)ground-cover plants
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