underplant
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
underplant (third-person singular simple present underplants, present participle underplanting, simple past and past participle underplanted)
- (transitive) To plant underneath.
- 2007 August 23, Charles Elliott, “Organic Looks Easy, if You’ve Got a Royal Staff”, in New York Times[1]:
- Such small, exquisite enclosures as the Sundial Garden beside the house, planted by Mr. Howard with near-black and white perennials chosen to bloom sequentially for 10 months of the year, or the Azalea Walk, with its underplanting of bulbs and season-extending clematis, cannot take care of themselves.
- (transitive) To plant too little of.
Noun[edit]
underplant (plural underplants)
- A plant that has been planted underneath others.