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🌱 Grown from cuttings 🌿 A plant cutting
quickset

quickset

1 9.9
Grown from plant cuttings put directly in the ground to take root
  • adjective
  • UK
: plantación rápida
  • They decided to plant a quickset hedge to mark the boundary of their field.

Examples

  • The quickset hawthorn provided excellent shelter for wildlife in the garden.

  • The quickset hedge grew taller than expected!

  • Farmers often use quickset methods when establishing new hedgerows.

  • A quickset hedge grows quickly.

  • To create a natural fence, many gardeners choose to plant a quickset hedge along their property line.

  • The garden was transformed with a quickset barrier that grew robustly from the planted cuttings.

  • When landscaping the park, they opted for a quickset solution to establish immediate greenery.

Surface Forms

quickset positive

Morphology

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

The compound is based on 'quick' in its archaic sense 'living' plus 'set' as a planted shoot; learners will likely interpret 'quick' as 'fast', so the actual meaning is not directly guessable.

Etymology

Quickset comes from quick meaning 'alive' and set meaning 'to place' or 'to plant'. So a quickset hedge is one made from living cuttings that are 'set' in the ground to take root and grow.