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{
"term": "crop",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a plant that is grown in large quantities, especially as food",
"labels": "(North American English)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Sugar cane is an important crop on the island."
},
{
"text": "What are the benefits of growing **GM crops**?"
},
{
"text": "**food crops**"
},
{
"text": "**crop yield/production**"
},
{
"text": "to **grow/plant/harvest crops**"
},
{
"text": "The crops are regularly sprayed with pesticides."
},
{
"text": "Crop rotation helps prevent soil erosion."
},
{
"text": "Crops are sprayed with highly toxic chemicals to prevent insect damage."
},
{
"text": "Fodder crops are used to feed livestock."
},
{
"text": "Isolated communities were extremely vulnerable if crops failed."
},
{
"text": "It takes three to five years for a new plantation to bear a crop."
},
{
"text": "Most of the farmers grow arable crops."
},
{
"text": "Rice is a staple crop for more than half of the world's population."
},
{
"text": "Rivers burst their banks and flooded standing crops."
},
{
"text": "Summer flash floods destroyed the crops."
},
{
"text": "to boost crop yields"
}
],
"topics": ["Farming"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["agricultural", "cash", "commercial"],
"verb + crop": ["cultivate", "grow", "produce"],
"crop + verb": ["grow", "fail"],
"crop + noun": ["rotation", "damage", "failure"],
"preposition": ["crop of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the amount of grain, fruit, etc. that is grown in one season",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a fall in this year’s coffee crop"
},
{
"text": "Australia's wheat crop is likely to be lower than forecast this year."
},
{
"text": "We are looking forward to a **bumper crop** *(= a very large one)*."
},
{
"text": "We had a very good crop of apples last year."
},
{
"text": "a crop of carrots"
},
{
"text": "a record crop was harvested"
}
],
"synonyms": "harvest",
"topics": ["Farming"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["abundant", "bumper", "excellent"],
"verb + crop": ["get", "harvest", "have"],
"preposition": ["crop of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a group of people who do something at the same time; a number of things that happen at the same time",
"sensetop": "crop (of something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the current crop of trainees"
},
{
"text": "She is really **the cream of the crop** *(= the best in her group)*."
},
{
"text": "a **crop of disasters/injuries**"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a short whip used by horse riders",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a riding crop"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "a very short hairstyle",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She has her hair cut in a short crop."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "hair that is short and thick",
"sensetop": "a crop of dark, fair, etc. hair/curls",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He had a thick crop of black curly hair."
}
],
"topics": ["Appearance"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 7,
"definition": "a part of a bird’s throat that has the shape of a bag where food is stored before it passes into the stomach",
"labels": "(specialist)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Birds"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["agricultural", "cash", "commercial"],
"verb + crop": ["cultivate", "grow", "produce"],
"crop + verb": ["grow", "fail"],
"crop + noun": ["rotation", "damage", "failure"],
"preposition": ["crop of"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/krɒp/",
"audio": "cr/crop/crop__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/krɑːp/",
"audio": "cr/crop/crop__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English, of Germanic origin; related to German Kropf. From Old English to the late 18th cent. there existed a sense ‘flower head, ear of corn’, giving rise to sense (1) and senses referring to the top of something."
}