overplant

present singular third person overplants · participle present overplanting · participle past overplanted · past overplanted

1. intransitiveTo plant too many plants (of any particular crop).

   With choice hybrid seeds being so expensive, it pays not to overplant if you can help it; pick your seed plates carefully.

2. transitiveTo plant too many of (some kind of plant), whether by sowing or by transplanting.

   He overplanted tobacco in his eagerness for a cash crop with higher margins.

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   Growers in the region had overplanted their wheat in a desperate attempt to mitigate slim margins by "making it up on volume".

3. transitiveTo plant (a place) with too many plants.

   The entire breadbasket region was overplanted with cultivars that were more disease-prone but had the dubious advantage of lower seed cost.