aftergrowthn.
/ˈɑːftəɡrəʊθ/, /ˈaftəɡrəʊθ/, U.S. /ˈæftərˌɡroʊθ/ A second or subsequent growth; a new growth after the first has been removed. Also: growth that occurs later.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > subsequent growth
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > subsequent growth
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > aftercrop > aftermath
edgrewc1440
rowen1440
eddish1468
aftermath1496
lattermath1510
after-pasturec1541
fog1570
roughingsc1575
etch1580
aftergrass1587
eddish-grass1610
edge-growth1610
eatagea1642
lattermowth1661
eegrass1669
ear-grass1686
etch-crop1704
after-mowth1711
afterfeed1714
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after-eatage1781
roughet1890
a1677 T. Manton Several Disc. (1685) 165 What is defective in parts, cannot be supplied by any aftergrowth.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. vi. 52 I called out my whole family to help at saving an after-growth of hay.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 106 The mind whom..he has..supplied with the germs of their after-growth.
1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 62 This vert was the after-growth of that great forest.
1891 Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 330 I very soon found the eggs on both self-sown plants and aftergrowth.
1919 Chem. Abstr. 13 3258 Chloramine has been used successfully for disinfection and elimination of after-growths in the water supply.
1995 D. Donoghue Walter Pater xxiii. 236 Wordsworth was one of those after-growths, his participation in the Zeitgeist being modified by his susceptibility to a vie antérieure.
2006 A. Englander & D. Shea tr. W. Schumann Gemstones of World (ed. 3) 261 It is important to make sure that there is sufficient aftergrowth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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