hydroseed

hydroseed
 v.— «Accompanying the installation of lifesaving guardrails along the Route 17 median in southern Orange County is an alien-green liquid that workers have been spraying on with a high-powered hose.…The process is called hydroseeding. The substance is a mixture of wood-fiber mulch, fertilizer and seed that forms a slurry.» —“Spraying on Route 17 is hydroseeding” by John Sullivan Times Herald-Record (Middletown, New York) Aug. 20, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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