Sentence examples for crop meaning from inspiring English sources

Schilling says coffee is "an orphan crop", meaning it has been grown in tropical countries that did not have the resources to invest in research.

One was a "blue crop," meaning he was gray like a seal and had his ears chopped off.

Note that millet is an annual crop, meaning the plant will die after producing seeds.

Severe nutrient deficiency can differentially affect wood properties among genotypes (Burdon and Harris 1973), but badly affected genotypes would contribute little if anything to crop yields, meaning that such interactions may have virtually no practical importance.

He noticed that many farms were not growing specialty crops – generally meaning vegetables and fruits destined for consumers – because of stiff competition.

First, research progress has been greatly slowed down, meaning crop improvement will now take longer.

Poor rainfall has caused crop failure, meaning that almost half of the population of Niger has no food reserves.

New York-based alternative bridal label Houghton went even further this season, creating a gown with an "under cleavage, meaning the crop top is so short you see the under-bust," according to designer Katharine Polk.

The botanical remains from this level show intensive cultivation of cereals, lentils, and nuts, meaning that crop farming was already under way; but the spectrum of animal bones in the earliest parts of this layer reflects the hunting of a wide variety of wild animals including hares, tortoises, and fish, along with larger animals such as goats, wild cattle, deer, and sheep.

"Apples are notorious for biennial bearing," he continued, meaning big crops one year are followed by small crops the next.

Raspberries are either summer-bearers, which means they bear one crop per season or ever-bearers, meaning they produce one harvest in summer and another in the fall.