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cropped

cropped

3.4
Land where farmers grow crops
  • adjective
  • /krɒpt/
translation icon : cultivado
  • Farmers rotated their cropped fields to restore soil fertility.

Examples

  • The cropped fields looked beautiful in the summer sun.

  • This report analyzes the impact of irrigation on cropped soils in the region.

  • After several years as cropped land, the soil needed nutrients replenished.

  • Farmers prefer cropped land for planting.

  • The cropped fields were ready for harvesting after all the hard work they put in.

  • Farmers often plant cropped land with various vegetables each season.

  • After the winter thaw, the cropped soil revealed signs of new growth.

Synonyms

cultivated
vscropped
3.5

Land prepared by people for growing crops

is land used to grow crops but not necessarily prepared or improved

Antonyms

unplanted
1 3.3

Land with no seeds or plants growing on it

How Cultivated

cropped
3.4
to fallow
5.1
uncultivated
1 5.1

Surface Forms

cropped positive

Morphology

cropped = crop (transparent) = crop + ed

Standard past-participle/adjectival formation from the verb 'crop' + '-ed', meaning 'having been used to grow or harvested for crops'.

Etymology

Cropped is built from the common word crop plus the ending -ed, and crop means the plants you grow or the 'harvest'. So, cropped land is land that has been used to grow crops or has just produced a harvest.