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green manure definition

green manure

  1. a crop of plants, as clover, plowed under while still green to fertilize the soil
  2. fresh manure

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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