| 单词 | crop |
| 释义 | crop (once / 152 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4v A crop is a large amount of one kind of fruit or vegetable that's grown on a farm. Your farmer uncle's corn crop might be especially large after a summer with plenty of rain. A major crop in parts of Asia is rice, while the coffee bean crop is important to the economics of several African and South American countries. A different kind of crop is the short whip that some riders use on horses — and when you crop something, you cut it short. You might decide to crop your hair at the beginning of the summer each year. The noun came first, originally defined as "the top of a sprout or herb." WORD FAMILYcrop: cropped, cropping, crops, overcrop+/cropped: uncropped/overcrop: overcropped, overcropping USAGE EXAMPLESHe first became interested in growing crops indoors in the two-thousand-aughts. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) From the earliest days of agriculture, farmers discovered various ways to prevent crop yields from declining over time: by restoring nitrogen to their fields. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) “Who else would pick the crops? Who would build the homes?” Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale Hypo|Hyper cash crop a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco) catch cropa crop that grows quickly (e.g. lettuce) and can be planted between two regular crops grown in successive seasons or between two rows of crops in the same season cover cropcrop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure field cropa crop (other than fruits or vegetables) that is grown for agricultural purposes root cropcrop grown for its enlarged roots: e.g. beets; potatoes; turnips field corncorn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain flora, plant, plant life (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion 2n the yield from plants in a single growing season Syn|Hypo|Hyper harvest fruitage the yield of fruit output, yield production of a certain amount 3n the output of something in a season the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores Hyper end product, output final product; the things produced 4n a collection of people or things appearing together the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas Hyper accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection several things grouped together or considered as a whole 5v yield crops This land crops well Hyper bear, turn out bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year" 6v prepare for crops Syn|Hypo|Hyper cultivate, work knead, work make uniform overcrop, overcultivate to exhaust by excessive cultivation fix, gear up, prepare, ready, set, set up make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc 7v let feed in a field or pasture or meadow Syn|Hypo|Hyper graze, pasture browse, graze, pasture, range feed as in a meadow or pasture grass feed with grass driftdrive slowly and far afield for grazing feed, give give food to 8v feed as in a meadow or pasture Syn|Hyper browse, graze, pasture, range range let eat graze, pasturelet feed in a field or pasture or meadow eat, feed take in food; used of animals only 9v cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper clip, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim shear cut with shears poll, pollardconvert into a pollard pinch, topcut the top off disbudthin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers tailremove the stalk of fruits or berries thin out make sparse n a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food 3Syn|Hyper craw breadbasket, stomach, tum, tummy an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion n the stock or handle of a whip 4Hyper grip, handgrip, handle, hold the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it v cut short She wanted her hair cropped short Hyper cut shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of |
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