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Word entry · 4 letters

crop

Best crossword clue

"Farm harvest"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /kɹɒp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted coprStarts with CEnds with P2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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

01Farm harvest4 letters
02Farmer's yield4 letters

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