green manure

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green manure (usually uncountable, plural green manures)

  1. Any fairly green (fresh and wet) plant matter that is ploughed into the soil to improve its fertility; especially, a cover crop that is plowed in.
    • 1901 June 21, Alex Pardy, “Green Manuring”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[1], volume 4, number 6, page 242:
      There are, broadly speaking, two classes of green manures, viz.:—Leguminous and others.

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