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crop-rotate

crop-rotate verb: to practice crop rotation in growing (a particular crop).

Verb

crop-rotate (third-person singular simple present crop-rotates, present participle crop-rotating, simple past and past participle crop-rotated)

  1. To practice crop rotation in growing (a particular crop)
    • Sugar beet needs a lot of (petrochemical) weed killers, has to be crop-rotated (so the processors are four times as far apart, which means longer shipping routes), and the processors and evaporators are energy hogs.2009 December 3, "Gerard", “Can't Beet Sugar Cane”, in The Scope, number 95, page 3
    • Currently, cotton is crop rotated with winter wheat in Uzbekistan after cotton is harvested. This is an advantage in diversification for soil health and food security.2012 November 27, Michael R. Edelstein, Astrid Cerny, Abror Gadaev, Disaster by Design: The Aral Sea and Its Lessons for Sustainability, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN, page 167

Forms of crop-rotate

third-person singular presentcrop-rotates
present participlecrop-rotating
past participlecrop-rotated
pastcrop-rotated

Questions about crop-rotate

What does crop-rotate mean?
Crop-rotate means to practice crop rotation in growing (a particular crop).
What part of speech is crop-rotate?
Crop-rotate is a verb.
What is the past tense of crop-rotate?
The past tense of crop-rotate is crop-rotated.

Words near crop-rotate in the dictionary

  1. crop-dustings
  2. crop-dusts
  3. crop-ear
  4. crop-ears
  5. crop-full
  6. crop-rotate
  7. crop-rotated
  8. crop-rotates
  9. crop-rotating
  10. cropable
  11. cropbound

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