Crop Food Short Noun Krɒp Krɑːp Sugar Important

• sugar is an important crop on the island.
• what are the benefits of growing gm crops?
• food crops
• crop yield/production

crop

1. a plant that is grown in large quantities, especially as food
• SEE ALSO cash crop
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cash-crop
• Sugar is an important crop on the island.
• What are the benefits of growing GM crops?
• food crops
• crop yield/production
• to grow/plant/harvest crops
• The crops are regularly sprayed with pesticides.

Extra Examples

• Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.
• Crops are sprayed with highly toxic chemicals to prevent insect damage.
• Fodder crops are used to feed livestock.
• Isolated communities were extremely vulnerable if crops failed.
• It takes three to five years for a new plantation to bear a crop.
• Most of the farmers grow arable crops.
• Rice is a staple crop for more than half of the world's population.
• Rivers burst their banks and flooded standing crops.
• Summer flash floods destroyed the crops.
• to boost crop yields
2. the amount of grain, fruit, etc. that is grown in one season
• SYNONYM harvest
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/harvest_2
• a fall in this year’s coffee crop
• Australia's wheat crop is likely to be lower than forecast this year.
• We are looking forward to a bumper crop (= a very large one).
• We had a very good crop of apples last year.

Extra Examples

• a crop of carrots
• a record crop was harvested
3. a group of people who do something at the same time; a number of things that happen at the same time
• the current crop of trainees
• She is really the cream of the crop (= the best in her group).
• a crop of disasters/injuries
4. a short whip used by horse riders
• a riding crop
5. a very short hairstyle
• She has her hair cut in a short crop.
6. hair that is short and thick
• He had a thick crop of black curly hair.
7. a part of a bird’s throat that has the shape of a bag where food is stored before it passes into the stomach

Word Origin

• Old English, of Germanic origin; related to German Kropf. From Old English to the late 18th cent. there existed a sense ‘flower head, ear of corn’, giving rise to sense (1) and senses referring to the top of something.