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tagasaste

tagasaste noun: cytisus proliferus, a small evergreen tree commonly used to improve the condition of soils used for farming.

tagasaste: cytisus proliferus, a small evergreen tree commonly used to improve the condition of soils used for...
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Noun

tagasaste (uncountable)

  1. Cytisus proliferus, a small evergreen tree commonly used to improve the condition of soils used for farming.
    • Optimum spacing between tagasaste plants within rows must depend on site conditions, especially moisture and nutrient availability.1990, R. J. Townsend, “Tagasaste forage production systems”, in New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, volume 33, page 632
    Synonyms:
    tree lucerne

Synonyms of tagasaste

  • tree lucerne

Origin of tagasaste

Borrowed from Guanche tagasaste.

Questions about tagasaste

What does tagasaste mean?
Tagasaste means cytisus proliferus, a small evergreen tree commonly used to improve the condition of soils used for farming.
What part of speech is tagasaste?
Tagasaste is a noun.

Words near tagasaste in the dictionary

  1. Tagan-ayan
  2. Tagana-an
  3. Taganghin
  4. Taganrog
  5. Tagapul-an
  6. tagasaste
  7. Tagata Pasifika
  8. tagati
  9. tagatose
  10. tagatoses
  11. Tagawa

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