crop
英検2級作物・収穫高
意味
- 《しばしば複数形で》作物,収穫物
- (一地域で一期にとれる農作物の)収穫[高],生産[高],作柄
- 作付け,植え付け,耕作
- 《通例単数形で》(同時に,または続々と出てくる人・物の)群れ《+of+名》
- 《通例単数形で》(髪の)刈込み,いがぐり頭
- (鳥の)え袋,そのう
- (動物の耳を切って目じるしにする)耳じるし
- 乗馬むち;むちの柄
- 〈草・毛などの先〉を刈り込む,かみ切る
- (…を)…に植え付ける《+名+with+名》
- 作物ができる;作物を植える
例文
Happily the crops were not harmed by the typhoon.
幸いにも作物は台風の被害を受けなかった。
The prolonged drought did severe damage to crops.
長く続く干ばつが収穫に甚大な被害をもたらした。
The rain had a good effect on the farm's crops.
雨は農作物によい影響を及ぼした。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Doublet of group. Cognates Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Faroese and Icelandic kroppur (“body”). Related to crap. Doublet of group and croup.