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cover crop definition

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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