interplant

[in-ter-plant, -plahnt, in-ter-plant, -plahnt]

verb (used with or without object)

Agriculture.

1. intercrop.

Word History and Origins

Origin of interplant¹

First recorded in 1925–30; inter- + plant

Example Sentences

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

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“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.

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“Interplant, don’t overplant,” she cautions.

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

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"Interplant communication of tomato plants through underground common mycorrhizal networks."

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