🌱 Grown from cuttings 🌿 A plant cutting

quickset

9.9

A living plant cutting put in the ground to form a hedge or a hedge made from such cuttings

noun

: plantón

After a few months, the quickset had grown thick and lush, providing excellent privacy.

Examples

At the same time, this picture of rural American cookery seems traditional and uncomplicated, a representation of "the good old days" even though Grandma's cookbook contained a recipe for quickset Jell-o salad.

Blog text (18)
The gardener planted several quickset cuttings to create a new hedge around the garden.
They decided to use quickset to form a natural barrier against the wind.

Synonyms

hedge

vsquickset

49 2.0

A row of closely planted bushes that forms a low natural fence

is made specifically from live cuttings set to grow that fence

hedgerow

vsquickset

5 5.9

A row of bushes planted close together that makes a low fence between fields or beside a road

is created from live cuttings rather than forming naturally along fields

How Established

hedge

49 2.0

quickset

9.9

cutting

1 3.5

Surface Forms

quickset singular

quicksets plural

Morphology

quickset = quick + set (opaque) = quick + set

The noun sense refers to a living cutting or a hedge made of live cuttings, depending on 'quick' = 'living', an archaic sense not transparent to most learners.

Etymology

Quickset comes from quick 'alive' and set 'to plant', and it originally named a living shoot put into the earth. That is why a quickset is a living cutting (often hawthorn) or a hedge made from such cuttings.