Interplant

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To alternate plantings of two or more species.

    "The most extensive of these field tests was conducted in a 5-acre young apple orchard temporarily interplanted, as is frequently the custom, with peach trees."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Between manufacturing plants or divisions. not-comparable

    "In interplant and interdepartmental shipments, it has been found that the cost of packaging is prohibitive where the articles or bodies of merchandise are individually crated or cased."

  2. 2
    Between plants. not-comparable

    "the patented machine functions to deposit the plants onto the field at only one fixed spatial relationship whereby the machine cannot accommodate different crops and/or different growing conditions wherein different interplant spacings might be required."

Example

More examples

"In interplant and interdepartmental shipments, it has been found that the cost of packaging is prohibitive where the articles or bodies of merchandise are individually crated or cased."

Etymology

From inter- + plant. Piecewise doublet of interclan.

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