Definitions for mulches

mulches mulch

Spelling: [muhlch]
IPA: /mʌltʃ/

Mulches is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in mulches (cehlmsu).

Definitions for mulches

noun

  1. a covering, as of straw, compost, or plastic sheeting, spread on the ground around plants to prevent excessive evaporation or erosion, enrich the soil, inhibit weed growth, etc.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cover with mulch.

Origin of mulches

1650-60; noun use of obsolete mulch (adj.), Middle English molsh soft, Old English myl(i)sc mellow; cognate with dialectal German molsch soft, overripe

Examples for mulches

All 175 goes to form new soil, or to fertilize or mulch the old.

It is well to mulch these plants during the hot, dry weather of summer.

It is very injurious, but it may be applied on the surface as a mulch, with safety.

Some use tobacco stems as a mulch about Asters instead of manure.

The early clipping and the mulch cause increase in yield of seed.

Others advise leaving the clippings to act as a sort of mulch.

Other plants may be able to get along with a mulch of grass-clippings from the lawn.

To provide a mulch of dry soil so as to prevent the evaporation of moisture.

The only available material for a mulch in most instances is the soil itself.

They should have a summer mulch to intercept the radiation of moisture from the soil.

Word Value for mulches
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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