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side-dress

[ sahyd-dres ]

verb (used with object)

, side-dressed, side-dress·ing.
  1. to fertilize (growing plants) by mixing fertilizer into the soil along each row.


side-dress

verb

  1. tr to place fertilizers on or in the soil near the roots of (growing plants)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of side-dress1

First recorded in 1965–70

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