(n.) The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
(n.) The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.
(n.) That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.
(n.) Grain or other product of the field while standing.
(n.) Anything cut off or gathered.
(n.) Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
(n.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.
(n.) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
(n.) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
(n.) A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
(v. t.) To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
(v. t.) Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
(v. t.) To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
(v. i.) To yield harvest.
Example Sentences:
(1) The form of the harvested crop, varietal characteristics and annual growing conditions have less bearing.
(2) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(3) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(4) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.
(5) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
(6) Wastewater from Mexico city is used to irrigate over 85 000 hectares, mainly of fodder and cereal crops in the Mezquital Valley.
(7) In lieu of crop rotation and biodiversity (the non-toxic way to control weeds), the MSU extension service promotes what the article calls a "diversified herbicide program".
(8) This report summarizes mass loading data (i.e., mass of soil per unit of vegetation) for crops in the southeastern United States and compares these data to 1) those from other regions and 2) the mass loadings used in radionuclide transfer models to predict soil contamination of plant surfaces.
(9) In this way proline may be related to the cell wall as a morphological entity rather than as a fraction in a biochemical separation of a heterogeneous crop of cells.
(10) The crops were fortified with each fungicide at 3 levels per crop.
(11) Three root crops (radishes, carrots, and onions) were grown in two soils, each treated with a mixture of FireMaster BP-6 (PBB) and 14C-PBB to achieve final concentrations of 100 ppm and 100 ppb.
(12) Pro- and anti-GM organisations clashed on Tuesday over the accuracy of industry figures that suggested a rise internationally of 8% in the acreage of GM crops in 2011, a 16th straight rise since they were first sold in 1996.
(13) Duodenal DM flow was estimated with the indigestible markers, Cr-mordanted cell wall, Yb-soaked whole crop oat silage, and Co-EDTA.
(14) She walked around her Bethnal Green and Bow constituency in a crop top that showed her belly button ring; she also established herself as a hard- working MP for that area.
(15) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(16) An increased cancer incidence has also been found in geographical areas with low selenium contents in forage crops (Shamberger et al 1976).
(17) The warming is expected to continue without undue problems for 30 years but beyond 2050 the effects could be dramatic with staple crops hit.
(18) We conclude that the hair cell determines the number of stereocilia to form by filling up the available apical surface area with stereocilia and then, by cropping back those that are not stabilized by extracellular linkages, arrives at the appropriate number.
(19) T he image of the lone wolf who splits from the pack has been a staple of popular culture since the 19th century, cropping up in stories about empire and exploration from British India to the wild west.
(20) And that means more of the world's crops going to feed animals, already consuming 40% of all the grains we farm.
Furrow
Definition:
(n.) A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.
(n.) Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age.
(n.) To cut a furrow in; to make furrows in; to plow; as, to furrow the ground or sea.
(n.) To mark with channels or with wrinkles.
Example Sentences:
(1) The contractile ring exists from about 20 sec after anaphase to the end of furrowing activity, i.e., 6-7 min at 20 degrees C. It is closely associated with the plasma membrane at all times, and is probably assembled there.
(2) Committing to ploughing a lone furrow without international agreement will damage our economy for little or no environmental benefit.
(3) The orientations of the cleavage spindles and the corresponding furrows' positions are assumed to be correlated to the field's temporal evolution which, in turn, is determined by flows of cytoplasmic components originated by the changes in the membrane shape.
(4) Some fields had lightly furrowed brows, others deep gullies and humpbacked hills.
(5) These observations suggest that the double strands on the P-face are registered with the grooves (type I or type II) on the complementary E-face and that a row of particles on the E-face is registered with a furrow-like region between two rows in the double strands on the P-face.
(6) New work is required to identify the signals from the mitotic spindle that specify the position of the furrow.
(7) Daballen navigates the jeep between thorn bushes and over furrows, guided by a rising moon and his intimate knowledge of the terrain.
(8) Near the end of first cleavage, membrane of the outer, pigmented surface of the embryo and a short band of membrane at the leading edge of the furrow displayed a high silver grain density, but the remainder of the furrow membrane was lightly labeled.
(9) We report the results obtained from 18 women whose facial folds and furrows were treated with augmentation therapy.
(10) The events that lead to the cell shape changes mediating ventral furrow formation require the transcription of zygotic genes under the control of twist and snail.
(11) Many leapt from the tyres they were swinging in to furrow their brows and howl in anger.
(12) During conversion of cells to protoplasts, plasma membrane invaginations were arranged end-to-end to form prolonged furrows which persisted until cell wall regeneration had been completed.
(13) 3-D-reconstructions of serial sections of human embryos show that the margin of the lip furrow band is irregular and consists of an abundance of individual epithelial excrescences.
(14) We then show that stimulatory signals of the right kind would induce furrows at the locations observed, in spherical cells as well as cells distorted by experimental manipulation.
(15) In gastrulae, spectrin accumulates near the embryo surface, especially at the forming amnioproctodeal invagination and cephalic furrow.
(16) The present observations indicate that the previous descriptions of the urodele carotid labyrinth should be corrected: a vascular ring exists around the common carotid artery and the latter shows a corresponding narrowing at the entrance to the carotid labyrinth; the vascular ring forms the most proximal part of the external carotid rete; the central chamber occupies only a part of the proximal end of the carotid labyrinth; the internal carotid rete and the external carotid rete constitute a continuous rete mirabile; and a distinct furrow exists in the boundary between these two portions of the rete mirabile.
(17) Injection of autologous adipose tissue removed via liposuction has been used clinically for facial contouring, the aging face, furrows, facial atrophy, acne scars, nasolabial folds, chin, and various other surgical defects.
(18) A cluster of facial actions comprised of brow bulging, eyes squeezed shut, deepening of the naso-labial furrow and open mouth was associated most frequently with the invasive procedure.
(19) Thus, the orientation of mitotic furrows depends on the internal polarity of the cell before mitosis.
(20) The semidominant and nonpleiotropic suppressors at four of the six loci display defective eye phenes themselves, and the phenotypically normal mutants at a fifth locus are suspected alleles of a gene represented by recessive furrowed eye mutants.