interplant

Adjective

 * 1)  Between manufacturing plants or divisions.
 * 2) * 1935, Roy C. Ingersoll, "Ring for Packaging," US Patent 2119745, page 2:
 * In interplant and interdepartmental shipments, it has been found that the cost of packaging is prohibitive where the articles or bodies of merchandise are individually crated or cased.
 * 1)  Between plants.
 * 2) * 1977, Lawrence L. Ingram et al., "Transplanting apparatus," US Patent 4104975, page 8:
 * the patented machine functions to deposit the plants onto the field at only one fixed spatial relationship whereby the machine cannot accommodate different crops and/or different growing conditions wherein different interplant spacings might be required.

Derived terms

 * interplant distance

Verb

 * 1)  To alternate plantings of two or more species.
 * 2) * 1931, Wendell H. Tisdale, "Insect Repellent," US Patent 2205232, page 4:
 * The most extensive of these field tests was conducted in a 5-acre young apple orchard temporarily interplanted, as is frequently the custom, with peach trees.