interplant
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of interplant
Example Sentences
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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
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