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outyield

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Etymology

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From out- +‎ yield.

Verb

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outyield (third-person singular simple present outyields, present participle outyielding, simple past and past participle outyielded)

  1. (transitive) To exceed or surpass in yielding.
    • 1971, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Farmers' bulletin:
      In summer plantings, double rows outyield single rows.
    • 2008, Ashenafi Gedamu-Gobena, Triticale Production in Ethiopia:
      Similarly, experiments on sandy (low nutrient soils) from North Africa show that triticale outyields wheat and barley by about 33%.