overplant
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To plant too many of (some kind of plant), whether by sowing or by transplanting.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "With choice hybrid seeds being so expensive, it pays not to overplant if you can help it; pick your seed plates carefully."
- "Growers in the region had overplanted their wheat in a desperate attempt to mitigate slim margins by "making it up on volume"."
- "He overplanted tobacco in his eagerness for a cash crop with higher margins."
- "The entire breadbasket region was overplanted with cultivars that were more disease-prone but had the dubious advantage of lower seed cost."
Etymology
From over- + plant.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over