hop field
- noun
- /hɑp fiːld/
:
campo de lúpulo
- During the harvest season, many families worked together in the hop field to gather the crops.
Examples
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The local brewery sources its ingredients directly from a nearby hop field, ensuring fresh hops for their beer.
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The majority of the Indians in the latter part of the nineteenth century continued to practice traditional subsistence activities, which included salmon fishing, berry picking, and an annual pilgrimage to the hop fields in the early fall.
Academic text (1990) -
The annual exodus to the hop fields, which was a longstanding tradition in the subsistence strategies of the Coast Salish Indians, had both good and bad consequences.
Academic text (1990) -
The bright green plants in the hop field climbed high on the trellises, ready for picking.
Synonyms
A field where plants used to make beer are grown
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Morphology
The meaning 'a field where hops are grown' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'hop' (the plant) with 'field' (a plot of land), following the common English noun+noun compounding pattern. This is a straightforward, literal composition that has clear parallels in other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Hop field comes from farms where people grow the hop plant on tall poles in a field. The cone-like flower of the hop is picked to add flavor in 'brewing beer', so the name simply means a field used to grow hops for beer.