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Cover Crop

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Noun

1. cover crop

crop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cover Crop

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noun
a crop planted between main crops to prevent leaching or soil erosion or to provide green manure

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Cover Crop

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a quick-growing crop, as vetch or clover, used for a short time to protect soil from erosion and then plowed under as fertilizer

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cover Crop

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n.
A crop, such as winter rye or clover, planted between periods of regular crop production to prevent erosion and typically turned under before maturity to increase the soil's organic matter and nitrogen content.

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