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plot of ground

n. a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch" [syn: plot, patch]

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The title of this story refers to a plot of ground, while the title of this collection refers to a dastardly conspiracy.

Bradford says that there was immediate improvement when each family received the full returns from working its own individual plot of ground.

It also boasted of what in Languedoc is styled a garden, consisting of a small plot of ground, on the side opposite to the main entrance reserved for the reception of guests.

She had for a time wondered why the little house had been placed off-center on its plot of ground, not square with the streets around the park.

They were gathered around a plot of ground with bright-green, healthy-looking seedlings poking out of it.

I've never felt any patriotic loyalty to a specific and arbitrary plot of ground.

Everything filtered through them: the small, burnt plot of ground that marked the place where the cottage had stood, and the dead man covered in blood.

A paler plot of ground lay between patches of the treacherous sludge.

She also decided there was no reason to mention the open plot of ground somewhere on the other side of the Bloody Tower—.

But the backwash sent hundreds of thousands of spores wafting into the air in hopes of finding some other kind plot of ground.

But all they desired was a small plot of ground and the peace to tend it.

With his map before him, he followed the explanations until he thought he could recognize the very plot of ground which Julio’.

That broad, flat plot of ground had housed the palace of Shilbree the Dreamer, three hundred years ago.

They had crushed and eaten people, horses, even wagons that had the bad luck to spill some moisture on the plot of ground above them, and who knew what they were like thick, aboveground, and in full bloom?

But my plot of ground was so small it would barely support my own wife and children.