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crop-rotating

crop-rotating is the present participle and gerund of crop-rotate.

Meaning of crop-rotate

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

Questions about crop-rotating

What is crop-rotating the present participle and gerund of?
Crop-rotating is the present participle and gerund of crop-rotate.

Words near crop-rotating in the dictionary

  1. crop-ears
  2. crop-full
  3. crop-rotate
  4. crop-rotated
  5. crop-rotates
  6. crop-rotating
  7. cropable
  8. cropbound
  9. cropduster
  10. cropdusters
  11. cropdusting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crop-rotating (page history and authors); crop-rotate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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