Crop Sprayed Coffee Short Noun Bre Krɒp Krɑːp

• sugar is an important crop on the island.
• crop rotation/production/yield
• the crops are regularly sprayed with pesticides.
• a fall in this year’s coffee crop

crop

1. a plant that is grown in large quantities, especially as food
• Sugar is an important crop on the island.
• crop rotation/production/yield
• The crops are regularly sprayed with pesticides.
2. the amount of grain, fruit, etc. that is grown in one season
• synonym harvest
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/harvest_1
• a fall in this year’s coffee crop
• We are looking forward to a bumper crop(= a very large one).
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
• See related entries: Equine sports
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/equine_sports/crop_6
• a riding crop
5. a very short hairstyle
6. hair that is short and thick
• See related entries: Describing hair
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/describing_hair/crop_1
• He had a thick crop of black curly hair.
7. a part of a bird’s throat shaped like a bag where food is stored before it passes into the stomach

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 farmers now produce cash crops such as coffee and tobacco for the export market.
• 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.
• We had a very good crop of apples last year.
• a crop of carrots
• a record crop was harvested
• the current crop of graduate trainees
• the replacement of traditional crops with cash crops for export
• to boost crop yields

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.