crop : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)
  

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• noun a 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
  

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• noun crop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure
  

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• noun the failure of crops to produce a marketable surplus
  

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• verb appear at the surface
  basset.
  
  • A seam of coal bassets

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• verb appear suddenly or unexpectedly
  pop up; pop.
  
  • The farm popped into view as we turned the corner
  • He suddenly popped up out of nowhere

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• noun the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft)
  spraying.
  

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Crop"-ear` noun

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1. A person or animal whose ears are cropped.

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Crop"-eared` adjective

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1. Having the ears cropped.

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Crop"-tailed` adjective

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1. Having the tail cropped.

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• the crop taken from a green fallow. Eng.

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• noun a crop (other than fruits or vegetables) that is grown for agricultural purposes
  
  • cotton, hay, and grain are field crops

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• adjective of or relating to field crops
  
  • field-crop management

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• a crop used for food while in a growing or unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root crop, etc.

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• noun a short whip with a thong at the end and a handle for opening gates
  hunting crop.
  

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• completely; wholly; altogether; roughly and at once. Colloq.
• altogether; roughly and at once. Colloq.

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• noun a short whip with a thong at the end and a handle for opening gates
  hunting crop.
  

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• noun crop grown for its enlarged roots: e.g. beets; potatoes; turnips
  

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• the practices of cultivating an orderly succession of different crops on the same land.

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• noun cultivation of crops in strips following the contours of the land to minimize erosion
  

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• . (Agric.) See Rotation of crops, under Rotation.

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• . (a) (Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal. (b) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out.

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• to sprout; to spring up. "Cares crop up in villas."

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Wam"ble-cropped` adjective

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1. Sick at the stomach; also, crestfallen; dejected. Slang

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• (Law of Leases), a crop of grain to which tenants for years are sometimes entitled by custom; grain sown in the fall to be reaped at the next harvest; a crop which will not ripen until after the termination of the lease. Burrill.

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• a crop of grain which loses its green color, or becomes white, in ripening, as wheat, rye, barley, and oats, as distinguished from a green crop, or a root crop.

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• a crop which will bear the winter, or which may be converted into fodder during the winter.

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