I.
noun
1 plants grown for food
ADJECTIVE
▪ agricultural
▪ cash , commercial , export
▪
Most farmers now produce cash ~s such as coffee and tobacco for the export market.
▪ fodder ( BrE ), food , forage
▪
Fodder ~s are used to feed livestock.
▪ subsistence
▪ staple
▪
Rice is a staple ~ for more than half of the world's population.
▪ traditional
▪ cover (= grown to protect and improve the soil)
▪ spring , winter
▪ growing , standing
▪
Rivers burst their banks and flooded standing ~s.
▪ arable ( BrE ), cereal , fruit , grain , root , seed , vegetable
▪ organic
▪ biotech , genetically engineered , genetically modified (abbreviated to GM )
VERB + CROP
▪ cultivate , grow , produce , raise
▪
Most of the farmers grow arable ~s.
▪ plant , sow
▪ bring in , harvest , reap
▪ damage , destroy
▪
Summer flash floods destroyed the ~s.
▪ rotate
▪ spray
▪
Crops are sprayed with highly toxic chemicals to prevent insect damage.
▪ protect
▪ sell
CROP + VERB
▪ grow
▪ fail
▪
Isolated communities were extremely vulnerable if ~s failed.
CROP + NOUN
▪ rotation
▪
Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion.
▪ damage , failure , loss
▪ production , yield
▪
to boost ~ yields
▪ protection
▪ dusting
▪ plant
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ of
▪
a ~ of carrots
2 total amount of grain, fruit, etc. grown
ADJECTIVE
▪ abundant , bumper , excellent , good , heavy , record
▪ poor
▪ early
▪
Bring strawberry plants indoors for an early ~.
▪ potato , rice , wheat , etc.
VERB + CROP
▪ get , harvest , have , reap
▪
a record ~ was harvested
▪
We had a very good ~ of apples last year.
▪ bear , produce , yield
▪
It takes three to five years for a new plantation to bear a ~.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ of
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ closely
▪
His hair was closely cropped.
PHRASES
▪ ~ sth short
▪
His hair had been cropped short and he looked different.
Crop is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ photograph