multicropping
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The practice of growing two or more crops on the same piece of land during a single growing season.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "1978 December, Samuel G. Unger, George W. Bailey, Environmental Implications of Trends in Agriculture and Silviculture, Volume 2: Environmental Effects of Trends, US Environmental Protection Agency, page 28, Multicropping practices will increase in some areas; however, it is doubtful if year-round cropping will occur throughout most of the U.S."
- "Other researchers have shown interest in multiple cultivar phenomena among indigenous and peasant peoples by studying the distribution and merits of polyculture and multicropping in the tropics."
- "Farms with relatively abundant labor compared with their farm size are less likely to engage in multicropping."
Etymology
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Inflected Forms
multicroppings (plural)
multi-cropping (alternative)