[usu. withadj. or noun modifier]a plant which yields a crop of a specified kind or in a specified way (特殊)作物 the white-fleshed varieties are the heaviest croppers. 有白色果肉的那些品种是最高产的作物。
a machine or person that cuts or trims something, such as wool off a sheep or the pile of a carpet during manufacture 修剪机;裁剪机;修剪工;裁剪工
(chiefly US)a person who raises a crop, especially as a sharecropper (主美)庄稼人(尤指收益分成的佃农)
常用词组 come a cropper
(informal)fall heavily (非正式)猛摔一跤 ■suffer a defeat or disaster 遭受失败;遇到灾难 the club's challenge for the championship has come a cropper. 该俱乐部夺冠的挑战失败了。