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    GROUND COVER

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floorplay

    Synonyms:

    ground cover; groundcover

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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 growplay

    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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