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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A growing crop, such as clover or grass, that is plowed under the soil to improve fertility.
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- noun A
crop that isploughed into thesoil to improve itsfertility
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- noun a growing crop that is plowed under to enrich soil
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