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GROUND COVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor
Synonyms:
ground cover; groundcover
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ground cover" is a kind of...):
underbrush; undergrowth; underwood (the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow
Synonyms:
ground cover; groundcover
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("ground cover" is a kind of...):
botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ground cover"):
Hernaria glabra; rupturewort (common prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures)
whitlowwort (any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail))
pearl-weed; pearlweed; pearlwort (any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls)
baby's tears; baby tears; Helxine soleirolia; Soleirolia soleirolii (prostrate or creeping Corsican herb with moss-like small round short-stemmed leaves)
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