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alley cropping

alley cropping is the present participle and gerund of alley crop.

Meaning of alley crop

Verb

alley crop (third-person singular simple present alley crops, present participle alley cropping, simple past and past participle alley cropped)

  1. (transitive) To plant non-woody crops between rows of nut, fruit, timber, or fodder trees.
    • First stop for our entourage of two buses and three cars is a technical school where the headmaster has directed his students to alley crop a small field of Leucaena and cowpeas.1990, Thomas A. Bass, Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa, page 136

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Questions about alley cropping

What is alley cropping the present participle and gerund of?
Alley cropping is the present participle and gerund of alley crop.

Words near alley cropping in the dictionary

  1. alley cats
  2. alley catted
  3. alley catting
  4. alley crop
  5. alley cropped
  6. alley cropping
  7. alley crops
  8. alley oop
  9. alley ooped
  10. alley ooping
  11. alley oops

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