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monocrop

monocrop noun: a crop of a single kind, grown without others.

Noun

monocrop (plural monocrops)

  1. A crop of a single kind, grown without others.
    • For many residents, a monocrop of million-dollar homes is nearly as awful a nightmare as suburban sprawl.2015 November 3, Greg Beato, “Communities Come Together to Make Homes More Affordable”, in New York Times

Verb

monocrop (third-person singular simple present monocrops, present participle monocroping, simple past and past participle monocroped)

  1. To grow (a crop) in a monoculture.
    • Sugar cane is good- it grows like a weed and can be monocropped, and the trash parts become fuel for the evaporators.2009 December 3, "Gerard", “Can't Beet Sugar Cane”, in The Scope, number 95, page 3

Forms of monocrop

Noun
pluralmonocrops
Verb
third-person singular presentmonocrops
present participlemonocroping
past participlemonocroped
pastmonocroped

Origin of monocrop

From mono- + crop.

Questions about monocrop

What does monocrop mean?
Monocrop means a crop of a single kind, grown without others.
What part of speech is monocrop?
Monocrop can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of monocrop?
The plural of monocrop is monocrops.

Words near monocrop in the dictionary

  1. monocrat
  2. monocratic
  3. monocratically
  4. monocrats
  5. monocrepid
  6. monocrop
  7. monocropped
  8. monocropping
  9. monocrops
  10. monocrotaline
  11. monocrotic

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