cover crop

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   crop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure

   Broadercrop

Questions about cover crop

What does cover crop mean?

cover crop means "crop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure".

Is cover crop a common word?

cover crop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.