staple crop

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• crop — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 plants grown for food ADJECTIVE ▪ agricultural ▪ cash, commercial, export ▪ Most farmers now produce cash crops such as coffee and tobacco for the export market. ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• crop — I n. 1) to grow; plant a crop 2) to gather, harvest, reap a crop 3) to bear, yield a crop 4) to rotate crops 5) to dust, spray crops 6) a bountiful, bumper, record; poor crop 7) a cash; staple crop II v. (N; used with an adjective) they cropped… …   Combinatory dictionary

• staple — ▪ I. staple sta‧ple 1 [ˈsteɪpl] noun [countable] 1. OFFICE a small piece of thin wire that is pushed into sheets of paper and bent over to hold them together 2. a food that is needed and used all the time: • staples like flour and rice …   Financial and business terms

• staple — adjective rice is their staple crop Syn: main, principal, chief, major, primary, leading, foremost, first, most important, predominant, dominant, (most) prominent, basic, standard, prime, premier; informal number one …   Thesaurus of popular words

• Staple food — Grains Various types of …   Wikipedia

• staple — 01. Please [staple] your test sheet to your essay paper before handing it in. 02. I cut my finger on a [staple] during the test, and got blood all over the paper. 03. Rice is the most important [staple] in the diet of many Asian countries. 04.… …   Grammatical examples in English

• staple — adj. Staple is used with these nouns: ↑crop, ↑diet, ↑fare, ↑food, ↑gun …   Collocations dictionary

• staple — sta·ple || steɪpl n. metal clip for binding papers; basic food item; essential element; main crop or product of a region; trade item that is constantly in demand; fiber (of wool, cotton, etc.) v. bind together by means of a staple or staples… …   English contemporary dictionary

• staple food crop —   the main crop which forms the basis of calorific content of the diet for a particular area. Usually a carbohydrate food such as cereals or tubers …   Geography glossary

• catch crop — noun a crop that grows quickly (e.g. lettuce) and can be planted between two regular crops grown in successive seasons or between two rows of crops in the same season • Hypernyms: ↑crop * * * noun : a crop grown between two crops in ordinary… …   Useful english dictionary

• Seed Banks-Preserving Crop Diversity — ▪ 2009       On Feb. 26, 2008, the most ambitious seed bank facility ever constructed was inaugurated in Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean only about 1,000 km (620 mi) from the North Pole. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) …   Universalium