: an area where plants are grown for commercial or decorative purposes
also
: the plants grown in such an area
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Thus, even if a farmer primarily relied on corn for sustenance and/or trade, planting beans and squash alongside the maize increased the nutritive value of the same area.
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JSTOR Daily, 14 Oct. 2025
Follow the same timing and guidelines to clean up the planting surface of the container.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Oct. 2025
There will also be raffle draws and tree planting demonstrations.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
The Santa Barbara daisy, which is actually native to Mexico and Central America, is meant not only for sunny garden, block wall, or walkway border planting, but tolerates a fair dose of shade as well as poor soil and drought.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 11 Oct. 2025
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JSTOR Daily, 14 Oct. 2025
Follow the same timing and guidelines to clean up the planting surface of the container.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Oct. 2025
There will also be raffle draws and tree planting demonstrations.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
The Santa Barbara daisy, which is actually native to Mexico and Central America, is meant not only for sunny garden, block wall, or walkway border planting, but tolerates a fair dose of shade as well as poor soil and drought.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 11 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for planting
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“Planting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/planting. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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