shade-grown

adjective

ˈshād-ˌgrōn 

: grown in the shade

specifically : grown under cloth

shade-grown tobacco

Examples of shade-grown in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But in other regions, like Argentina’s Misiones Province, the semillas needed to gain the trust of monoculture farmers to help transition them to shade-grown; some had been farming conventionally for decades. — Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for shade-grown

• acetone
• anglophone
• baritone
• bourguignon
• buspirone
• chaperon
• chaperone
• cobblestone
• collarbone
• cornerstone
• cortisone
• dictaphone