crop

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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noun, verb
+ noun
plants for food
1 [C] a plant that is grown in large quantities, especially as food: Sugar has always been an important crop on the island. + crop rotation / production / yield + The crops are regularly sprayed with pesticides.
See also - CASH CROP
2 [C] the amount of grain, fruit, etc. that is grown in one season: a fall in this year's coffee crop + We are looking forward to a bumper crop (= a very large one).
group of people
3 [sing.] a ~ of sth a group of people who do sth at the same time; a number of things that happen at the same time: the current crop of graduate trainees + She is really the cream of the crop (= the best in her group). + a crop of disasters / injuries
whip
4 [C] a short whip used by horse riders: a riding crop
hair
5 [C] a very short hairstyle
6 [sing.] a ~ of dark, fair, etc. hair / curls hair that is short and thick: He had a thick crop of black curly hair.
of bird
7 (technical) a part of a bird's throat shaped like a bag where food is stored before it passes into the stomach
+ verb (-pp-)
hair
1 to cut sb's hair very short: [VN] closely cropped hair [also VN-ADJ]
photograph
2 [VN] (technical) to cut off part of a photograph
of animals
3 [VN] to bite off and eat the tops of plants, especially grass: The horses were quietly cropping the grass.
plants
4 [V] (of plants) to produce a crop: The potatoes cropped well this year.
5 [VN] to use land to grow crops: The river valley is intensively cropped.
Phrasal Verbs: crop up to appear or happen, especially when it is not expected: His name just cropped up in conversation. + I'll be late-something's cropped up at the office.

Collocation dictionary

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¹ plants grown for food

ADJ.

agricultural | cash, commercial, export | fodder, food, forage

Fodder crops are used to feed livestock.

| subsistence | staple | traditional

the replacement of traditional crops with cash crops for export

| spring, winter | standing

Rivers burst their banks and flooded standing crops.

| arable, cereal, fruit, root, vegetable

VERB + CROP

grow, produce

Most of the farmers grow arable crops.

| plant, sow | bring in, gather, harvest, reap | damage, destroy

Summer flash floods destroyed the crops.

| rotate | spray

Crops are sprayed with highly toxic chemicals to prevent insect damage.

CROP + VERB

fail

Isolated communities were extremely vulnerable if crops failed.

CROP + NOUN

rotation

Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.

| damage, failure | production, yield

to boost crop yields

| spraying

PREP.

~ of

a crop of carrots

² total amount of grain, fruit, etc. grown

ADJ.

abundant, bumper, excellent, good, heavy, record | poor | early

Bring strawberry plants indoors for an early crop.

| potato, rice, etc.

VERB + CROP

gather, get, harvest, have, reap

a record crop was harvested We had a very good crop of apples last year.

| bear, produce, yield

It takes three to five years for a new plantation to bear a crop.

PREP.

~ of

Concise English dictionary

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cropped|cropping|cropskrɒp
noun
+the yield from plants in a single growing season
+a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
+a collection of people or things appearing together
+the output of something in a season
+the stock or handle of a whip
+a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
verb
+cut short
+prepare for crops
+yield crops
+let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
+feed as in a meadow or pasture
+cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

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