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outyield

outyield verb: to exceed or surpass in yielding.

Verb

outyield (third-person singular simple present outyields, present participle outyielding, simple past and past participle outyielded)

  1. (transitive) To exceed or surpass in yielding.
    • In summer plantings, double rows outyield single rows.1971, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Farmers' bulletin
    • Similarly, experiments on sandy (low nutrient soils) from North Africa show that triticale outyields wheat and barley by about 33%.2008, Ashenafi Gedamu-Gobena, Triticale Production in Ethiopia

Forms of outyield

third-person singular presentoutyields
present participleoutyielding
past participleoutyielded
pastoutyielded

Origin of outyield

From out- + yield.

Questions about outyield

What does outyield mean?
Outyield means to exceed or surpass in yielding.
What part of speech is outyield?
Outyield is a verb.
What is the past tense of outyield?
The past tense of outyield is outyielded.

Words near outyield in the dictionary

  1. outyells
  2. outyelp
  3. outyelped
  4. outyelping
  5. outyelps
  6. outyield
  7. outyielded
  8. outyielding
  9. outyields
  10. outzany
  11. ouvarovite

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