groundcover

1. 1.

   low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow

   Synonymsground cover

   Broadervegetation

   Narrowerrupturewortwhitlowwortpearlwortbaby's tears
2. 2.

   small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor

   Synonymsground cover

   Broaderunderbrush

Other forms of groundcover

plural

groundcovers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about groundcover

What does groundcover mean?

groundcover means "low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in groundcover?

groundcover has 3 syllables: ground-co-ver. The stress falls on "ground".

What is another word for groundcover?

Close synonyms include ground cover, ground cover. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is groundcover a common word?

groundcover 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.