A quick-growing crop, as vetch or clover, used for a short time to protect soil from erosion and then plowed under as a fertilizer.
Cov"er crop.
A catch crop planted, esp. in orchards. as a protection to the soil in winter, as well as for the benefit of the soil when plowed under in spring.
© Webster 1913.
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