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A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

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the farmer had lots of crops to sell at the market

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The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.

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it was a good crop of lambs that year

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A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.

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a crop of ideas

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A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease

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Like in chicken pox.

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The lashing end of a whip

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An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.

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A rocky outcrop.

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The act of cropping.

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A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.

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A short haircut.

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A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion, or for regurgitation; a craw.

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The foliate part of a finial.

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The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.

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Tin ore prepared for smelting.

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Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

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An entire oxhide.

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To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

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To mow, reap or gather.

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To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.

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To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.

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To yield harvest.

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To cause to bear a crop.

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to crop a field

Examples of crops in a Sentence

The principal crops are millets, pulse and cotton.

We planted crops in the field you walked across and a few others down the road.

Let them cut the crops and burn wood to their hearts' content.

The soil, mainly alluvial, is naturally very fertile, and wherever cultivated yields abundant crops, durra being the principal grain grown.

Crops, chiefly barley, rye, oats, turnips and green crops, are, however, grown on clearings in the forest, though the yield is poor.

Oats and potatoes are the crops most extensively cultivated.

But where irrigation is employed the yield of crops is excellent.

In 1891 excessively heavy autumn rains washed the arable soils to such an extent that the next season's corn crops were below average.

In Lagos crops increased rapidly.

It is probably easier to extend the area under cotton rapidly when crops are raised from many places in proximity to other crops than when the mass of the cotton is obtained from a few highly specialized districts.

Greater stability of crops in proportion to area cultivated is hoped for.

In other parts fine crops of millet and various kinds of grain are grown, and on it trees flourish abundantly.

Fruits normally form the principal crop; the total value for 1907-8 of the fruit crops of the state (including oranges, lemons, limes, grape-fruit, bananas, guavas, pears, peaches, grapes, figs, pecans, &c.) was $6,160,299, according to the report of the State Department of Agriculture.

The farm of the future will rotate crops automatically and decide which fields to leave fallow.

Are you going to insist that Howie admit to her what we're doing at Econ Scrutiny all day; not just counting sheep births and soy bean crops?

Other important crops grown are - maize, 324,000 acres; oats, 493,000 acres; other grains, 160,000 acres; hay, 1,367,000 acres; potatoes, 119,000 acres; sugar-cane, 141,000 acres; vines, 65,000 acres; and other crops, 422,000 acres.

This repayment sometimes consists of half the estimated value of the standing crops.

The landlords on their part organized an agrarian union to defend their interests and enrolled numbers of non-union laborers to carry on the necessary work and save the crops.

Several of the elaterid larvae, however, gnaw roots and are highly destructive to farm crops.

Rye is the staple crop, though buckwheat, flax, green crops and the potato are cultivated in considerable quantities.

But a long course of continuous cropping with these grain crops, without affording compensation to the soil in the form of manure or deep cultivation, has so ex.

Water-melons, sun-flowers and flax, both the last two for oil, are usual crops.

This, besides reducing the efficiency of the furnace, introduces the danger of fire to crops and buildings near the line.

The " black mouse " or Carson field mouse (Microtus montanus) is found throughout Nevada, as well as in Utah, north-eastern California, and eastern Oregon; it multiplies rapidly under favourable conditions, and at times causes serious injury to crops.

The soil when reclaimed is well adapted for forage crops, cereals, vegetables and deciduous fruits.

In 1900, 88.9% of its farm acreage was devoted to hay and forage crops, being more than doubled in the decade.

It is the trade centre of a rich and beautiful agricultural region in which tobacco, wheat and Indian corn are the principal crops.

Perhaps Erysichthon may be explained as the personification of the labourer, who by the systematic cultivation and tilling of the soil endeavours to force the crops, instead of allowing them to mature unmolested as in the good old times.

Sweet potatoes, white potatoes and onions also are important crops.

In the meantime the crops of cereals increased little, and stock raising generally decreased.

The principal crops are cotton, Indian corn, tobacco, hay, wheat, sweet potatoes, apples and peanuts.

Under such conditions of the soil, the land, nevertheless, produces crops of wheat and other grain from fifteen to forty fold.

The principal crops are potatoes, rye and oats, but wheat and barley are grown in the more fertile districts; tobacco, flax, hops and beetroot are also cultivated.

All classes high and low are fond of the religious festivals, the principal of which, the Dasahra, occurs in October, when the first harvest of the year has been secured and the second crops sown.

The principal crops are millet, other food-grains, pulse, oil-seeds and cotton.

The discovery of the uses of the bare fallow and of manure, by making it possible to raise crops from the same area for an indefinite period, marks a stage of progress.

Wheat, barley and spelt were the leading crops.

Hemp and flax are mentioned as common crops.

Being once sown, it will last five years; the land, when ploughed, will yield, three or four years together, rich crops of wheat, and after that a crop of oats, with which clover seed is to be sown again.

Indigo and opium are the most lucrative crops.

The sweet potato and pea-nut crops have also become very valuable; on the other hand the Census of 1900 showed a decline in acreage and production of cotton.

Cotton, Indian corn, sweet potatoes, yams and rice are small crops.

The principal crops are barley,',rice, wheat, other food-grains, pulse, sugar-cane and opium.

The staple crops of Berar are cotton and juar.

Their main wealth consists in their herds of cattle and flocks of sheep. They raise, however, crops of maize, millet, sweet potatoes and tobacco.

Maize and millet are the chief crops.

In addition several Indian villages and the crops of the Indians were destroyed in the lake region of western New York.

The chief crops are maize, wheat, barley, beans, rye, hemp, potatoes and tobacco.

Potatoes and turnips are the only root crops that succeed, and barley and oats are grown in some of the islands.

There the mighty dead are present with the living, protect them and their houses and crops, are their strength in battle, and teach their hands to war and their fingers to fight.

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