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单词 ground cover
释义

ground cover

or groundcover

SEE SYNONYMS FOR ground cover ON THESAURUS.COM

noun

the herbaceous plants and low shrubs in a forest, considered as a whole.
any of a variety of low-growing or trailing plants used to cover the ground in areas where grass is difficult to grow, as in dense shade or on steep slopes.

Origin of ground cover

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby ground cover

ground cloth, ground color, ground connection, ground control, ground-controlled approach, ground cover, ground crew, ground dove, grounded, ground effect, ground elder
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Example sentences from the Web for ground cover

  • He began to question Holden hopefully about the ground-cover outside.

    Operation: Outer Space|William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • There were even trees of severely practical design, and underbrush and ground-cover equivalent to grass.

    This World Is Taboo|Murray Leinster

British Dictionary definitions for ground cover

ground cover

noun

  1. dense low herbaceous plants and shrubs that grow over the surface of the ground, esp, in a forest, preventing soil erosion or, in a garden, stifling weeds
  2. (as modifier)ground-cover plants
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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