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# crop

«crop» in Mova's school dictionary: **a plant grown in large amounts by farmers, like wheat…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (crop, crops); verb (crop, crops, cropped, cropping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A crop is a plant grown in large amounts by farmers, like wheat, rice, potatoes or apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/#m1)

2) A crop is the amount of such a plant gathered in one season. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/#m2)

3) To crop a picture is to cut off the edges you do not want. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/#m3)

4) To crop hair is to cut it very short. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/#m4)

5) To crop can also mean to bite off and eat grass or leaves, as animals do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science, crops need soil, water, sunlight and care; farmers plant, grow and harvest crops; bad weather can ruin crops. In computing, children crop photos. Phrases: «grow crops», «a good crop», «crop up» (= appear suddenly), «crop top».

### examples

- Wheat and corn are important crops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/#x1)
- The farmers harvest their crops in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/#x2)
- The dry summer ruined the crop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/#x3)
- Crop the photo so only your face shows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/#x4)
- Some problems cropped up on our trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/#x5)
- Rice is the main crop in many parts of Asia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/#x6)
- We had a big crop of tomatoes this year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/#x7)
- Her hair was cropped short for summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/#x8)
- Brother, he crops in the jungle still. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/#x9)

### note

Double «p» in «cropped», «cropping». «Crop up» means happen unexpectedly. In maths problems, crop amounts are often in kilograms or tonnes, or per field or per row: «a crop of 30 kg per row, 5 rows» means 150 kg.

### In the corpora

- [Desert locusts are grasshoppers that, when crowded, change colour and behaviour and form swarms of billions that eat crops.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/16/)
- [Rabbits do eat crops and young vegetables, so farmers see them as pests and fence their fields.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/16/)
- [Changing the crop in each field from year to year is called crop rotation and keeps the soil healthy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/349-a-year-on-a-farm-lambing-haymaking-harvest-and-winter-feeding/16/)
- [Every summer it flooded and left rich black mud along its banks, perfect for crops.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/1/)
- [Egypt is mostly desert, but the Nile flooded every summer and left rich black mud along its banks, perfect for crops.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.