Phrase Hound found 58 phrases and 61 compound words that contain crop. The most common are listed below. Open crop in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 58
- crop upTo occur, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.
- cream of the cropThe best or most desirable among some selection.
- Crop production
- crop rotationA farming practice in which the same land is used to grow different crops in successive seasons or years (when once the land would have been left fallow); used to prevent erosion and increase fertility.
- crop milkA semi-solid substance, somewhat like pale yellow cottage cheese, secreted from the lining of the crop of (both male and female) pigeons and doves that is fed to their young (squabs) through regurgitation. An analog to crop milk is also …
- cash cropA crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding to livestock.
- riding cropA horsewhip, short whip used to goad a mount.
- crop topA short T-shirt or blouse that is cut off above the abdomen, exposing the midriff.
- crop circleAn area in a field of crops where the stalks have been flattened into a circle or other geometric shape, performed as a prank or sometimes ascribed to UFO activity etc.
- bumper cropAn excess of something; a large yield.
- cover cropAny of many crops planted between others or after others so as to prevent erosion and to improve soil quality (especially by adding nitrogen); such a crop is often plowed into the soil as a green manure at the end of its season. Crops …
- catch cropAny crop grown between the rows of another crop or intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point of time.
- hunting-cropA hunting whip, without a thong, that can be used for opening gates.
- food cropA crop raised for human consumption, such as wheat or rice.
- crop-dustingThe application of fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides onto crops from an aircraft
- crop markAlternative form of cropmark: A sign of the former location of some feature (such as a wall or a ditch) revealed by variations in plant growth on the surface.
- crop marksplural of crop mark: A sign of the former location of some feature (such as a wall or a ditch) revealed by variations in plant growth on the surface.
- Crop OverA traditional harvest festival in Barbados.
- crop topsplural of crop top: A short T-shirt or blouse that is cut off above the abdomen, exposing the midriff.
- money cropSynonym of cash crop: A crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding to livestock.
- profit cropSynonym of cash crop: A crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding to livestock.
- row cropA crop grown in rows; especially, a truck crop thus grown.
- standing cropThe total dried biomass of the living organisms present in a given environment.
- truck cropA vegetable crop grown by truck farming.
- crop outTo appear at the surface of the ground; to outcrop.
Compound words 61
- cropperA fall, a tumble; a decided failure.
- stonecropAny of various succulent plants of the Crassulaceae family, native to temperate zones, especially in genus Sedum
- croplandarable land
- cropmarkA sign of the former location of some feature (such as a wall or a ditch) revealed by variations in plant growth on the surface.
- croplandscropland
- aftercropA second crop in the same year.
- CropleyA surname.
- croppieA crop circle enthusiast who believes in the paranormal origin of crop circles.
- cropfulHaving a full crop (belly); satiated.
- intercropTo grow more than one crop simultaneously in the same field.