green manure

1. 1.

   a growing crop that is plowed under to enrich soil

   Broadermanure

Questions about green manure

What does green manure mean?

green manure means "a growing crop that is plowed under to enrich soil".

Is green manure a common word?

green manure 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.