frost-tender

English

Adjective

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.

Alternative forms

frost tender

References

“frost-tender”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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