frost-tender
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]frost-tender (comparative more frost-tender, superlative most frost-tender)
- (horticulture) Of plants: unable to tolerate frost, and liable to die if exposed to it.
- I found out to my cost that the tree fern I brought back from New Zealand was frost-tender, and it didn't survive the winter.
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[edit]References
[edit]- “frost-tender”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.