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Definition: Cover Crop |
Cover CropNoun1. Crop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | A close-growing crop, planted primarily as a rotation between regularly planted crops, or between trees and vines in orchards and vineyards, to protect soil from erosion and improve it between periods of regular crops. (references) |
Environment | A crop that provides temporary protection for delicate seedlings and/or provides a cover canopy for seasonal soil protection and improvement between normal crop production periods. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A crop of herbaceous plants grown and dug or plowed under while succulent to increase soil fertility with or without supplementary fertilizers. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A)in general, any crop, natural or introduced, that protects land from erosion by forming a living vegetative cover; b)more particularly, a subsidiary crop of low plants introduced in the earlier stages of a plantation to protect and keep the forest floor weedfree. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A crop that protects the soil against erosion. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Cover Crop |
| English words defined with "cover crop": Melilotus officinalis ♦ yellow sweet clover. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cover crop": No Till. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | District Conservationist Kevin Religa inspecting clover as part of rotation and cover crop. Kansas. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | No-till planting of corn into cover crop of barley. Washington County, Virginia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Clover cover crop in vinyard, VanBuren County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Negro tenant taking in load of lespedeza, a cover crop in Corbett Ridge section. Caswell County, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cover crop | 22 |
cover crop florida | 6 |
cover crop seed | 3 |
cover crop vineyard | 3 |
cover crop summer | 2 |
clover cover crop | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cover crop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | værnskov, grøngødskning, dækafgrøde (nurse crop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schermbos, schermbeplanting, grondbedekker, groenbemesting, bodembeschermend gewas (nurse crop), bodembedekker, bodembedekkend gewas (nurse crop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vihantalannoitus, suojuspuusto, suojaviljely, peittokasvi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | culture de protection, culture de couverture, culture anti-érosive, cultura de protection, engrais vert. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schutzpflanzung, Schutzkultur (nurse crop), Schutzfrucht (nurse crop), Gründünger, Deckfrucht-Kultur (nurse crop), Deckfruchtkultur, Überfrucht-Kultur (nurse crop), Überfruchtkultur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καλλιέργεια προστασίας (nurse crop), προστατευτική καλλιέργεια (nurse crop), αντιδιαβρωτική καλλιέργεια. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | copertura protettiva (shield), coltura protettiva (nurse crop), coltura di rivestimento, coltura di protezione (nurse crop), coltura antierosione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | overcay opcray cultura de protecção (nurse crop), cultura de cobertura (nurse crop), estrume verde. (various references) cultivo protector del suelo, cultivo de protección (nurse crop), cultivo de cobertura (nurse crop), abono verde. (various references) täckgröda, skyddsvegetation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-o-o-p-r-r-v" | |
-1 letter: overcrop. | |
-3 letters: cooper, poorer, prover. | |
-4 letters: cooer, coper, corer, cover, crore, poove, prove, repro, roper, rover. | |
-5 letters: cero, coco, coop, cope, core, cove, croc, crop, over, poco, poor, pore, repo, rope, rove. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-o-o-p-r-r-v" | |
+5 letters: cryoprotective. | |
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