succession of crops

American  

noun

1. the continuous cultivation of a crop throughout a season by successive plantings or by the use of varieties with different rates of growth.

2. the successive cultivation of short-lived crops.

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Etymology

Origin of succession of crops

First recorded in 1770–80

Example Sentences

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succession of crops

The time of maturity differs much in the different varieties: some belonging to the wood or alpine section produce a succession of crops throughout the summer.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

Sow sweet and garden peas and lettuces, for succession of crops, covering the ground with straw, &c.

From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous

To her, novel ideas meant the overthrow of succession of crops, ruin under the name of improvements and methods; in short, mortgaged lands as the inevitable result of experiments.

From Beatrix by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

The time of maturity differs much in the different varieties; some belonging to the wood or alpine section produce a succession of crops throughout the summer.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. by Charles Darwin

A succession of crops may oftentimes be grown during the year on one farm, so that irrigated lands in Arizona yield several times the produce obtainable in the Eastern states.

From Arizona's Yesterday Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer by John H. (John Henry) Cady