Meaning of siderate | Babel Free

Definitions

A plant that is grown alongside a crop in order to improve its growth; A companion crop.

Examples

“The annual and perennial lupine and sweet clover may be regarded as the best siderates.”

“New types of mineral fertilizers, higher quality organic matter⟳, and other biological means of compensating for the lost nutrients (including siderates) can reduce⟳ the required amounts of mineral fertilizers.”

“In such situation, environment-forming possibilities of crop rotations (including perennial legume herbs, siderates, after-harvest cultures, etc.) and different soil cultivation techniques (which may either attenuate or on the contrary to significantly increase⟳ the variegation of fields) play⟳ a peculiar role in the SAR "formation".”

CEFR level