| 单词 | ground cover |
| 释义 | ground cover (once / 161909 pages) n WORD FAMILY ground cover: ground covers USAGE EXAMPLESQ: My shady back yard could not support a ground cover, so I installed a concrete patio, poured in four sections, about 15 years ago. Washington Post(Nov 04, 2016) And we know how to use the density of ground cover to predict whether animals will starve. New York Times(Nov 08, 2016) If shrubs look like ground cover, perhaps it suits bureaucratic purposes. New York Times(Oct 27, 2016) 1n low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow Syn|Hypo|Hyper groundcover Hernaria glabra, rupturewort common prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures whitlowwortany of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail) pearl-weed, pearlweed, pearlwortany of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls Helxine soleirolia, Soleirolia soleirolii, baby tears, baby's tearsprostrate or creeping Corsican herb with moss-like small round short-stemmed leaves botany, flora, vegetation all the plant life in a particular region or period 2n small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor Syn|Hyper groundcover underbrush, undergrowth, underwood the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest |
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