crop

cultivo

Planta cultivada en grandes cantidades para obtener alimentos u otros productos útiles.

En inglés sencillo: A plant grown in large amounts for food or other useful products.

• Rice is an important crop here.
• The farmers grow several crops on their land.
• Dry weather has damaged the wheat crop.

Expresiones frecuentes: grow a crop, food crop, cash crop

cosecha

Cantidad de plantas o productos vegetales recogidos en una granja durante una temporada.

En inglés sencillo: The amount of plants or their products collected from a farm in one season.

• We had a good crop this year.
• The apple crop was smaller than expected.
• Heavy rain ruined last summer’s crop.

Cómo se usa: crop of something (The trees produced a large crop of pears.)

Sinónimos: harvest, yield

Expresiones frecuentes: bumper crop, poor crop, crop of something

buche

Bolsa dentro de algunas aves y otros animales que guarda la comida antes de que llegue al estómago.

En inglés sencillo: A bag inside some birds and other animals that holds food before it reaches the stomach.

• The bird’s crop was full.
• Seeds collect in the crop before reaching the stomach.
• The vet gently examined the pigeon’s crop.

Sinónimos: craw

Expresiones frecuentes: bird’s crop, full crop

recortar

Quitar los bordes de una imagen para dejar solo la parte deseada.

En inglés sencillo: To remove the outer parts of a picture so only the part you want remains.

• Please crop this photo.
• She cropped the image to remove the empty space.
• Can you crop the picture into a square?

Cómo se usa: crop something to something (I cropped the photo to the required size.)

Sinónimos: trim

Expresiones frecuentes: crop a photo, crop an image, crop something tightly

cortar al ras, recortar

Cortar muy corto el pelo, o las orejas o la cola de un animal.

En inglés sencillo: To cut hair or an animal’s ears or tail very short.

• She decided to crop her hair.
• The barber cropped his hair very short.
• Some owners crop their dogs’ ears.

Cómo se usa: crop something short (He cropped his hair short for the summer.)

Sinónimos: clip, cut short

Expresiones frecuentes: crop someone’s hair, crop something short, crop a tail

despuntar, cortar

Quitar la parte superior de algo, especialmente de una planta, cortándola o mordiéndola.

En inglés sencillo: To cut off the top part of something, especially a plant.

• The sheep crop the grass.
• He cropped the tops of the young plants.
• Horses had cropped the shoots close to the ground.

Sinónimos: trim, clip

Expresiones frecuentes: crop the grass, crop a plant

cultivar

Usar un terreno para cultivar plantas que después se recogerán para usarlas o venderlas.

En inglés sencillo: To use land to grow plants that will be collected and used or sold.

• They crop this field every year.
• The land was cropped with wheat last season.
• Farmers crop the lower fields more often.

Cómo se usa: crop something with something (They crop the fields with barley.)

Sinónimos: cultivate

Expresiones frecuentes: crop a field, crop the land