interplant

American  

[in-ter-plant, -plahnt, in-ter-plant, -plahnt] / ˌɪn tərˈplænt, -ˈplɑnt, ˈɪn tərˌplænt, -ˌplɑnt /

verb (used with or without object)

Agriculture.

1. intercrop.

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Etymology

Origin of interplant

First recorded in 1925–30; inter- + plant

Example Sentences

Because they grow so differently, it’s not advisable to interplant them.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2024

“You can interplant them, if you know how to do it, and get a tree established as you’re managing the old tree ‘through its last legs,’ so to speak,” he says.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2023

Another approach is to interplant an entire area of ground cover or perennial beds with a matrix of daffodils.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2021

Executives, they say, pit one plant against another, using interplant rivalries to spur production, a tactic called "whipsawing."

From Time Magazine Archive

Finally, when I attempted to interplant the rows with fast-growing trees, weeds choked out most of them in spite of my own efforts.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association