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  • 41crop — crop1 [ krap ] noun ** 1. ) count a plant grown for food, usually on a farm: That year, crop failure led to widespread famine. They re all out planting the crops today. the possible health risks posed by genetically modified crops cash crop… …

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  • 42Neck and crop — Crop Crop (kr[o^]p), n. [OE. crop, croppe, craw, top of a plant, harvest, AS. crop, cropp, craw, top, bunch, ear of corn; akin to D. krop craw, G. kropf, Icel. kroppr hump or bunch on the body, body; but cf. also W. cropa, croppa, crop or craw of …

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  • 43crop — I n. 1) to grow; plant a crop 2) to gather, harvest, reap a crop 3) to bear, yield a crop 4) to rotate crops 5) to dust, spray crops 6) a bountiful, bumper, record; poor crop 7) a cash; staple crop II v. (N; used with an adjective) they cropped… …

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  • 44crop — 1. noun /krɒp,kɹɑp,kɹap/ a) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose. a crop of ideas b) The natural production for a specific year, particularly …

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  • 45crop — 1 noun (C) 1 a plant such as wheat, rice, or fruit that is grown by farmers, especially in order to be eaten: The main crop in China is rice. | Most of the land is used for growing crops. | crops being harvested in September 2 the amount of wheat …

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  • 46Plant Variety Protection Act — The Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970 (PVPA), 7 U.S.C. §§ 2321 2582, is an intellectual property statute in the United States. The PVPA gives breeders up to 25 years of exclusive control over new, distinct, uniform, and stable sexually… …

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  • 47plant virus — Any of various viruses that can cause plant disease (e.g., the tobacco mosaic virus). Plant viruses are economically important because many of them infect crop and ornamental plants. Numerous plant viruses are rodlike and can be extracted readily …

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  • 48plant bug — any of numerous, often brightly colored hemipterous insects of the family Miridae that feed on the juices of plants. Also called capsid, leaf bug. [1855 60, Amer.] * * * ▪ insect       any member of two families of the insect order Heteroptera.… …

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  • 49plant — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 living thing ADJECTIVE ▪ delicate ▪ wild ▪ native ▪ rare ▪ garden, house …

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  • 50Crop coefficient — Models of transpiration, or combined evapotranspiration (ET), from plants often combine an idealized or well calibrated reference crop response model with coefficients that account for differences in response observed for the crop of interest.… …

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