(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.
Husbandry
Definition:
(n.) Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.
(n.) The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, veterinary help, the necessary use of drugs, the supervision and control of AID (Agricultural Inspection Services) and RVV (Inspection Service for Meat and Meat Products) add to the already substantial costs of modern animal husbandry.
(2) The husbandry and environmental conditions could not explain this phenomenon.
(3) Altered methods of production, highly concentrated froms of animal husbandry but also the resulting increase of the need for the cheapest possible materials for the mixed feed industry, the more rapid and greater transport facilities, the markedly increased trade in animals and particuarly in products originating fromthese animals, they all involve an increased risk of the import and outbreak of animal disease.
(4) The Mediterranean diet involves a set of skills, knowledge, rituals, symbols and traditions concerning crops, harvesting, fishing, animal husbandry, conservation, processing, cooking and particularly the sharing and consumption of food.
(5) Animal husbandry is not widespread here because bush meat is easily available.
(6) Typical husbandry procedures that might be considered as mild stressors did not elicit physiological stress responses in these meat-type chickens.
(7) The problems caused by this development necessitate to revise the management of animal production and husbandry, judgement to be based on ethical criterions.
(8) Biotechnology opens up a new area and new prospects for farm animal husbandry.
(9) Increased emphasis, therefore, should be placed on hygiene, husbandry and milking techniques to minimize bacterial numbers at teat ends to control mastitis as the drive for higher flow rate and yield make cows increasingly more susceptible to infection.
(10) Animal husbandry practices had a significant influence on selenium status.
(11) This was be explained with the fact that apramycin is still in a large use for animal husbandry in Bulgaria.
(12) It was pointed out that the hazards to attendants in livestock husbandry and the risks to consumers involved in the consumption of products of animal origin have been reduced to a minimum in 1976.
(13) These are, for example, certain characteristics of the different species, the varieties of husbandry and environment as single caged birds or flocks in zoos and aviaries and, especially, the lack of typical clinical symptoms in most cases.
(14) Learning in farm animals is of vital concern to veterinarians, agricultural engineers, and those involved with animal husbandry and welfare.
(15) Changes in animal husbandry, in particular the intensive production of pigs, poultry and eggs, followed the re-establishment of pig herds and fowl flocks after the derationing of animal feed in 1953.
(16) Of course, blood-drawing is far more responsible work than fish husbandry, horse care and fingernail technology; done carelessly, it can damage, even end, a human life.
(17) The practical situation in poultry and pig husbandry is then subjected to a critical analysis.
(18) These elements were divided into 4 general categories: design, including selection of test animals, basal diet, dosage form and doses of test substance, route of administration, and duration of exposure; observations, including gross observations during life and at necropsy, clinical tests, and histopathology; performance, including conduct of the test and animal husbandry; and analytical procedures, including chemical and statistical analyses.
(19) "We have a lot of endangered species, we have the husbandry and veterinary support and we aim to breed them as a genetic reservoir in case they go extinct in the wild.
(20) The survey indicates that strict housing arrangements and husbandry techniques are necessary to keep SPF mice free from P. carinii infection.