cover crop

a quick-growing crop, as vetch or clover, used for a short time to protect soil from erosion and then plowed under as fertilizer

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noun

A crop, such as winter rye or clover, planted between periods of regular crop production to prevent soil erosion and provide humus or nitrogen.

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