shade-grown

American  

[sheyd-grohn] / ˈʃeɪdˌgroʊn /

adjective

Horticulture.

1. grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.

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Etymology

Origin of shade-grown

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10

Example Sentences

In one project, they work with local village chiefs to cultivate shade-grown coffee as a business, a practice that can be done without inflicting a heavy toll on the forest.

From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2021

In Indonesia, other bats reduce the insect burden on shade-grown cacao.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2020

One afternoon last fall, I sat in the Free Speech Movement Café, on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, drinking a fair-trade, shade-grown coffee.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

At one point Archy reflects that in our age “everything good in life was either synthesized in transgenic cyborg vats or shade-grown in small batches by a Buddhist collective of blind ex-Carmelite Wiccans.”

From Salon • Sep. 20, 2012

This method is employed principally in Cuba, Florida and Connecticut where cigar wrapper leaves are produced, and such tobacco is known as shade-grown.

From Tobacco Leaves Being a Book of Facts for Smokers by Brennan, W. A.