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cropduster

cropduster noun: an aircraft that carries out crop-dusting.

cropduster: an aircraft that carries out crop-dusting
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Noun

cropduster (plural cropdusters)

  1. An aircraft that carries out crop-dusting.
    • If Cary Grant ran by, chased by a malevolent cropduster, you might not be surprised.2007 May 27, John Anderson, “Blood and Crashes? Sounds Like Lynch”, in New York Times
  2. A species of cicada, Diemeniana frenchi, of south-east mainland Australia.

Forms of cropduster

pluralcropdusters
alternative formcrop duster

Origin of cropduster

From crop + duster.

Questions about cropduster

What does cropduster mean?
Cropduster means an aircraft that carries out crop-dusting.
What part of speech is cropduster?
Cropduster is a noun.
What is the plural of cropduster?
The plural of cropduster is cropdusters.

Words near cropduster in the dictionary

  1. crop-rotated
  2. crop-rotates
  3. crop-rotating
  4. cropable
  5. cropbound
  6. cropduster
  7. cropdusters
  8. cropdusting
  9. crope
  10. cropen
  11. cropfield

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