crop

«crop» in Mova's school dictionary: a plant grown in large amounts by farmers, like wheat… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (crop, crops); verb (crop, crops, cropped, cropping)

meaning for a pupil

1) A crop is a plant grown in large amounts by farmers, like wheat, rice, potatoes or apples. tree →

2) A crop is the amount of such a plant gathered in one season. tree →

3) To crop a picture is to cut off the edges you do not want. tree →

4) To crop hair is to cut it very short. tree →

5) To crop can also mean to bite off and eat grass or leaves, as animals do. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science, crops need soil, water, sunlight and care; farmers plant, grow and harvest crops; bad weather can ruin crops. In computing, children crop photos. Phrases: «grow crops», «a good crop», «crop up» (= appear suddenly), «crop top».

examples

• Wheat and corn are important crops. tree →
• The farmers harvest their crops in autumn. tree →
• The dry summer ruined the crop. tree →
• Crop the photo so only your face shows. tree →
• Some problems cropped up on our trip. tree →
• Rice is the main crop in many parts of Asia. tree →
• We had a big crop of tomatoes this year. tree →
• Her hair was cropped short for summer. tree →
• Brother, he crops in the jungle still. tree →

note

Double «p» in «cropped», «cropping». «Crop up» means happen unexpectedly. In maths problems, crop amounts are often in kilograms or tonnes, or per field or per row: «a crop of 30 kg per row, 5 rows» means 150 kg.

In the corpora

• Desert locusts are grasshoppers that, when crowded, change colour and behaviour and form swarms of billions that eat crops.
• Rabbits do eat crops and young vegetables, so farmers see them as pests and fence their fields.
• Changing the crop in each field from year to year is called crop rotation and keeps the soil healthy.
• Every summer it flooded and left rich black mud along its banks, perfect for crops.
• Egypt is mostly desert, but the Nile flooded every summer and left rich black mud along its banks, perfect for crops.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «crop» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.