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(botany) A method of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground and covering the small shoots with earth; layering.
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(obsolete) The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth.
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To transfer a young plant from an inside location such as a greenhouse to an outdoors flower bed.
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(by extension) A body in white made from non-metallic materials
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(horticulture) heat supplied from below to the roots or rooting medium of plants under propagation, usually in hothouses or greenhouses
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(intransitive) to grow plants in a car.
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(US) A region of shrubs, typically dry in the summer and rainy in the winter. The coast of the Mediterranean is such a region.
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(biblical) A fruitful field.
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(horticulture) a method of grafting in which the scion is placed in a cleft or slit in the stock or stump made by sawing off a branch, usually in such a manner that its bark evenly joins that of the stock.
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A cultivated (not necessarily botanical) variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species.
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(of a plant) grown by cultivation (not wild)
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(transitive) To take up plants; to transplant.
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Deforestation for the purpose of creating cleared arable land for farming.
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(horticulture, transitive) To cover the stem or leaves of plants with soil, as to encourage root growth or protect from cold.
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The act or process of placing (something) in the earth; planting; burying
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To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant
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To train a plant in this manner.
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Synonym of mummy portrait
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(horticulture) The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed
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(obsolete) The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning.
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Relating to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful.
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(idiomatic) Any place or condition that is more favorable or beneficial.
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(horticulture) A kind of group used in horticultural nomenclature, applied to the progeny of an artificial cross from specified parents, in particular for orchids.
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the part of a year when weather conditions and temperatures are favourable for the growth of plants and trees.
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(horticulture) To plant a seed with one's hands, as opposed to a machine or tool.
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(usually in the plural) Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
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(agriculture) An outdoor area where hops are grown.
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A method of seeding (used especially with grass) that uses a slurry of seed in water
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To graft by inserting buds.
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To sow (to disperse or plant seeds).
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(agriculture) To alternate plantings of two or more species.
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Standard distance between individual plants placed in an ordered garden or field.
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To sow a plant species between rows of a crop
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Having, based upon, or provided with a kernel.
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A method of plant propagation by rooting cuttings.
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(botany, transitive) To propagate by marcottage.
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(botany) A process of plant propagation where soil is tied onto a branch stripped of a ring of bark.
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(countable, uncountable, now rare) A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc.
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Resembling or characteristic of a mummy (embalmed corpse).
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Relating to an ocean in vastness or composition.
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(horticulture) To plant outdoors (after being reared in a greenhouse etc)
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To yield more than normally, typically when grown with another plant species
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(colloquial) Short for physical plant. [the infrastructure and buildings used in the operation of a given facility]
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(soil science) Modified by the long-term use of manure to enrich the soil.
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(transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
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(idiomatic) To do something that will produce results or change in the future.
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(transitive, horticulture) To put (a plant) into the ground outside, from a greenhouse or a plant pot.
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Any material obtained from plants.
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(horticulture) A branch of a shrub, tree, etc., used for pleaching; a pleacher.
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(horticulture, transitive) To remove (a potted plant) from its pot and plant it in a garden.
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(of a potted plant) Having outgrown the size of the pot, such that its roots have no more room to grow.
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(horticulture) A layer or branch laid down to root.
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(transitive) To move (a growing plant) from one pot to a larger one to allow for further growth.
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The act of moving a plant into a different pot.
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An instance of something sprouting again.
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A method of improving the fertility of poor soils by adding a layer of small stones atop the soil, with perhaps some fertilizer atop the soil before adding rocks. The added rocks/stones would leech minerals from the rocky layer into the soil and have the stony layer retain moisture in the soil. The layer of stones remains in place when the area is cultivated.
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(nutrition) Substances, generally of plant origin, consisting mostly of complex carbohydrates which are undigested when eaten by humans, and which therefore help the passage of food and waste through the alimentary tract; dietary fibre.
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(obsolete) A sowing or planting.
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Obsolete spelling of sative [(obsolete) Sown or planted; propagated by seed, shoot, or root; cultivated, not wild.]
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Alternative form of seed bank [Synonym of seed vault]
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The act of sowing or spreading.
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(transitive, intransitive) To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds).
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The process by which something spawns.
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(horticulture) The practice of covering plant roots with stone, in the manner of a mulch.
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(obsolete) The sowing of seed over seed previously sown.
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The quantity of a resource harvested in this manner
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(ecology) An increase in the numbers of woody plants in a savanna or similar environment.
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(horticulture) To perform a graft on a fruit tree to change it to a more popular or profitable cultivar.
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(horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
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(transitive) To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
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An arrangement of underplants.
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The cultivation of plants within a skyscraper greenhouse or on vertically inclined surfaces.
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(intransitive, botany) To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
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