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KROP/krɒp/

A crop is a plant grown for food or other use, or that harvest; as a verb, to cut short, or (of a problem) to appear (crop up): a staple crop; crop up. Harvest is the gathering; yield is how much (if present elsewhere). Map the staple crop in the food-security case. Mix-up: chop (already in the dictionary); crap. Do not write crop for a wild forest with no farming.

Meaning

A plant grown for food or other use, or the harvest of that plant; as a verb, to cut short, or (of a problem) to appear (crop up).

Examples

• “Map the staple crop in the food-security case, not a hair advert.”
• “A problem cropped up in the sampling frame, which is the appear sense.”

Good to know

a staple / cash crop; crop yield; crop up; crop (hair). Gathering: harvest. Trap: chop. Geography, biology, and news. A farm plant, a harvest, or to cut short / appear.

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