crop
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1.1
- noun
- /krɑp/
:
cultivo (planta cultivada)
- Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops.
- grow crops
- crop production
- genetically modified crops
I said, why don't you grow crops that have two growing seasons?
- I said, why don't you grow crops that have two growing seasons?
- Again, very few crops really need a heat mat.
- We need them to pick the crops down here.
- The notion that we could lose whole staple crops has some basis in reality.
- But in many countries around the equator, crop yield will substantially drop.
- I'm like, we've been creating GMOs with crops for thousands of years.
- Dragons had come and burnt the crop just as they were harvesting.
- And then we'll get another crop of sweet corn for the fall.
- We invented cool new ways to harvest the crop tractors.
- We have been doing genetic modification crops for for hundreds of years.
- Now we have an extreme problem with dormancy crops coming out of dormancy.
Examples
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So this is saving a staple crop that was at risk of being destroyed.
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The university is conducting research on sustainable practices to improve the yield of the main crop grown in this region.
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Now, how long does it take to bring in your crop?
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We need them to pick the crops down here.
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We could grow a whole new crop of tomatoes.
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Will the crops grow again?
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In the fall when the crops are in.
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We picked crops and we worked in the fields.
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And of course, the World Bank sponsors crop insurance for farmers.
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We had four years of bad crops.
Synonyms
257
4.1
The amount people get from crops or investments
166
1.0
The time when farmers gather ripe crops from the fields
27
2.1
The amount of crop gathered at harvest
The amount of fruit or crops taken in one harvest
A fast-growing crop planted between main crops to use land and time well
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
3
4.6
Spraying crops from a low-flying plane with chemicals to kill pests or help them grow
- Specialized
1
3.4
A plant with a large part under the ground that people eat, like a potato or carrot
- Specialized
1
4.6
A plant grown for a specific market rather than as a main food crop, like fruits or flowers
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Crop comes from an old word cropp meaning 'top' or 'bunch', like the top part of a plant. So a crop is what farmers gather at harvest — the plants or the total amount produced.