Definitions
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
Word origin
From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”).
Used in a sentence
“The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?”
“It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!”
“The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Farm harvest”4 letters
02“Farmer's yield”4 letters
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