See Also: underplant(dictionary)

underplant (iou)



underplant verb trans. OE.
[from UNDER- + PLANT verb.]
Supplant. rare. OE-L16.
Plant or cultivate the ground about (a tall plant) with smaller ones. Freq. foll. by with. L19.
'underplanting noun (a) the action of the verb; an instance of this; spec. in Forestry, the process of growing shade-bearing trees among taller ones which they may eventually replace; (b) a plant etc. grown by underplanting: E20.