Crops

Word CROPS
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /kɹɒps/

Definitions and meanings of "Crops"

What do we mean by crops?

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

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

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

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

The lashing end of a whip

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

A rocky outcrop.

The act of cropping.

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

A short haircut.

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.

The foliate part of a finial.

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

Tin ore prepared for smelting.

Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

An entire oxhide.

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The word "crops" in example sentences

The term crops up increasingly in song lyrics, sitcoms, news reports and casual conversation. ❋ Philip Goldberg (2011)

Instead, his name crops up whenever a baseline of offensive futility is needed. ❋ By LYNN ZINSER (2011)

Certain crops receive subsidies and others do not; How come there are farmers who grow those unsubsized crops? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Droughts destroyed one third of the nation's grain crops, causing $1.3 billion in losses to farmers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In our case, one of our crops is basketry willow and our value added products are baskets. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It also promised to buy harvests from farmers who grow certain crops in strategic locations, such as tomatoes, blueberries and broccoli along the Interstate 95 corridor. ❋ Ylan Q. Mui (2010)

Climate change will also lead to big shifts in crops and locations. ❋ Brendan Smith (2010)

Alternatively, an environmentalist might go vegan because of the profound impact that raising animals for food has on the planet – using up vast amounts of land, water, and grain crops that could be used directly (and more efficiently) by humans for survival. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If one plants and maintains a foodplot of at least 30% protein crops, and these crops contain a cold weather tolerant species (i.e. Brassicas) then you are adding a significant increase in the amount of tonnage per acre available as food. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the U.S., because the main crops genetically modified are soy and corn, I think the best way to avoid them is to avoid processed food. ❋ Maria Rodale (2010)

Concerns range from worries about how nontraditional genetic traits in crops could affect human and animal health to the spread of herbicide-resistant weeds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Farm it like your vegetable plot, intensively, all the year, in crops that make horse-feed, irrigating, fertilizing, rotating your crops. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well, we already PAY farmers to not grow certain crops or raise certain animals, so why not do the same on the other side of the ledger? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The need there is to grow crops from the rainy season and to save some water for the dry season to continue. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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