intercrop
/ɪntəˈkrɒp
/verb (intercrops, intercropping, intercropped) [with object] (often as noun intercropping)
Grow (a crop) among plants of a different kind: lettuce is particularly good for intercropping among Brussels sprouts...
- Organic farmers use practices such as crop rotations, intercropping, strip cropping, establishing wildlife cover and providing habitat for beneficial organisms such as predatory insects, pollinators, birds, and bats.
- He controls diseases and pests by intercropping the aloe vera with plants such as dates, amla, melons, millet, castor, mungbean, pigeon pea, vegetables and selected medicinal plants.
- Small bushy legumes were intercropped between the mango trees and cashews to fix nitrogen levels, add biomass and help keep the soil temperature down.
noun
A crop grown among plants of a different kind: pineapple can be grown as an intercrop...
- Agronomic studies aimed at quantifying competition between two species most commonly consider a weed and crop species and, to a considerably lesser extent, two crops grown in an intercrop.
- Legume intercrops generally grow for some time past the corn harvest, and can take land away from the tightly scheduled sequential cropping typical of Asian agriculture.
- Sorghum and pigeon pea, for example, are grown as intercrops in drier parts of India.
Rhymes
- micrometer gage
- micrometer gauge
- micrometer microscope
- micrometer screw
- micrometre
- micrometric
- micrometrical
- micrometrically
- micrometry
- micromillimeter
- micromillimetre
- micromineral
- micro-mini
- microminiature
- microminiaturisation
- microminiaturization
- micro-miniskirt
- micromodel
- micromodeling
- micromodelling
- micromodule
- micromolar
- micromole
- micromorph
- micromorphic