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say it: muhlch
mulch is a noun and verb meaning "a protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion". It is pronounced /ˈmʌltʃ/ — muhlch. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mulch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.