GROUND COVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ground cover mean? 

• GROUND COVER (noun)
  The noun GROUND COVER has 2 senses:

1. low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow

2. small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor

  Familiarity information: GROUND COVER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUND COVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Low-growing plants planted in deep shade or on a steep slope where turf is difficult to grow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

ground cover; groundcover

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

ground cover; groundcover

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)