Definitions

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  • adjective manufacturing Between manufacturing plants or divisions.
  • adjective agriculture Between plants.
  • verb agriculture To alternate plantings of two or more species.

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ plant

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Examples

  • A group of evergreen ferns such as Dryopteris affinis 'Cristata', the hard fern Blechnum spicant and the hart's tongue fern Asplenium scolopendrium would look great through winter, and you could interplant these with primroses, so you get early spring flowers peeping out among them, like a little spring woodland floor scene.

    Stumped? Acers, plus shady window boxes Lia Leendertz 2010

  • Did they interplant other crops to hold moisture in the soil?

    Ken Wong: Charity as a Drop in the Bucket: Day 1 2010

  • Did they interplant other crops to hold moisture in the soil?

    Charity as a Drop in the Bucket: Day 1 2010

  • On the first day of every month since June, I have received a large calculator in my interplant mailbox at work.

    Calculator of the Month Club 2006

  • The sender's name on the interplant envelope varies ( "Marketing", "Repairs", "Roman Polanski") and the previous line on the envelope is always in our Plano office.

    Calculator of the Month Club 2006

  • I thought that the organic solution was to interplant the carrots with onions, whose scent puts off the carrot fly?

    Daniel's Carrots Glyn Davies 2008

  • The contractor may use the area to grow and harvest minor forest products or interplant cash crops, fruit trees and other agricultural crops using sound agroforestry practices.

    Chapter 5 1992

  • The contractor may use the area to grow and harvest minor forest products or interplant cash crops, fruit trees and other agricuitural crops using sound agroforestry practices.

    1. Integrated social forestry program (ISFP) 1992

  • The contractor may use the area to grow and harvest minor forest products or interplant cash crops, fruit trees and other agricultural crops using sound agroforestry practices.

    Chapter 4 1992

  • The contractor may use the area to grow and harvest minor forest products or interplant cash crops, fruit trees and other agricultural crops using sound agroforestry practices.

    Chapter 5 1992

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