well-plantedadj.

?1531 G. Joye Lett. Ashwel to Lyncolne sig. C Nomore then it lyeth in the libertye of the liuelye tre wel planted to ceasse frome bringing forth hir frutes in hir time.

1572 L. Mascall Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees iii. 9 Al the sayde trees do bring as good frute of the sayde Nuttes, if they be well planted, and set in good earth.

1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies iii. xviii. 120 Hee's like a Reed, that alwaies does reside, Like a well planted Tree, by th' water side.

1724 S. Switzer et al. Pract. Fruit-gardener xxix. 109 Although a Fruit-Tree be never so well planted, yet it will require some future Care in the Tillage and Dressing of the Border.

1856 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 16 269 The government..found itself in possession of five tracts of well-planted cinnamon.

1891 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 Oct. 907/2 His children, like the well-planted sapling swaying in the gale, are likely in the end to be only the better for a reasonable exposure to the kindly buffetings with which Nature sometimes mingles her richest gifts.

1945 Econ. Geogr. 21 235/1 Millions of well-planted date palms covered the large oases.

1979 Soil Surv. Hardin & Larue Counties, Kentucky (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 31/1 Strong, healthy, well planted seedlings are most likely to survive.

2004 Hort. Week 22 Apr. 15 A..well-planted tree does not need a stake four or five feet tall and two or three times as thick as its own trunk.

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxii. f. 166 A litle dore which shewed the way into so singulare and well planted a Garden, as euer the delicious and pleasant Gardens were of Alcinoe.

1578 W. B. tr. Appian of Alexandria Aunc. Hist. Romanes Warres i. 13 Some of the owners must be put..from frutefull and well planted places, to Fennes and marrish groundes.

1670 J. Ogilby Africa 204 Garsis boasts of many well-planted Gardens, fruitful Valleys, full of Vines.

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Mark xii. 8 A Vineyard is a place Enclosed, a place well Planted, well Fruited.

1725 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. II. iii. 13 The well-planted Parks, and high grown Woods.

1837 S. Lewis Topogr. Dict. Ireland 21 Pleasantly situated in a well-planted demesne.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch III. vi. lv. 219 Where the fine old turf sloped..towards a lilied pool and well-planted mounds.

1903 B. Bryan Matlock v. 136 The rising, well-planted slope.

2001 Pract. Fishkeeping Feb. 51/1 A very well-planted environment would suit them best.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. xvi. 439 Sancho..held out his face and beard to the first, who treated him with a well planted twitch.

1788 Lounger's Misc. 7 June 11 The sorites is, when any one follows up a well planted blow by a variety of others, and thus overwhelms his adversary.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. xi. 297 He could have settled her with a well-planted blow.

1853 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 5 Nov. 297/2 I had succeeded in keeping the bear out of the canoe by several well-planted blows upon the snout.

1911 Boys' Life Mar. 38/2 The man's feet were knocked from under him by a well-planted kick.

1998 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 10 Sept. 1 g A particularly well-planted, though unintended, shot hit a ceramic crocodile squarely in the head.