groundcover
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- noun
- /ˈɡraʊndˌkʌvər/
- Specialized
:
cubresuelos
- Many gardeners prefer to use native plants as groundcover to enhance biodiversity in their yards.
- perennial groundcovers
- groundcover plants
- evergreen groundcovers
Examples
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Creeping thyme is an excellent groundcover that adds beauty and color to the garden.
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I also met the marble dog, seated in a mass of dark green groundcover.
Fiction book (1997) -
The groundcover was crushed down where the statue had been, and the stems of the plants that had been underneath it were yellowish white, but the lion-dog was gone.
Fiction book (1997) -
My tiny front yard is currently a sea of mulch (not red, mind you) with some baby shrubs and slow-growing native groundcover spotted throughout.
Blog text (28) -
A small, low sign beside a sprinkler head in the landscaping groundcover says, "Auga Impura, No Tomar."
Fiction book (2001) -
"When he mentions the name, I recall seeing it off Route 95: a gigantic windowless groundcover, the sort of plant that seems to spring up overnight from a gaping crater.
Fiction book (1990) -
The antagonist in my story is Aegopodium podograria, a pernicious sod-forming herbaceous groundcover that has run rampant over half of the garden beds.
Academic text (1998) -
In my garden, I used a low-maintenance groundcover to prevent soil erosion and suppress weeds.
Synonyms
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Plants that grow low and spread over soil to protect it in gardens
A plant grown beneath larger plants to cover the ground
How Spreading
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word groundcover joins ground ('earth') and cover ('to protect' or 'to hide'), so it is easy to picture: a green 'carpet' that covers the earth. That's why a groundcover is a low plant that spreads over the soil to protect it and stop erosion.