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Definition of Overcrop
1. Verb. To exhaust by excessive cultivation. "The farmers overcropped the land"
Category relationships: Agriculture, Farming, Husbandry
Generic synonyms: Crop, Cultivate, Work
Definition of Overcrop
1. Verb. To cultivate land excessively and thus exhaust its fertility ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overcrop
1. to exhaust the fertility of by cultivating to excess [v -CROPPED, -CROPPING, -CROPS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcrop
Literary usage of Overcrop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"I don't think our friend Phineas is over ami above scrupulous as to how he makes
his money." " He 's not orer and above pious." overcrop. ..."
2. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1876)
"It is quite wrong to overcrop Vines and then fancy that you can make ар for It
by feeding them with guano water. We always scatter the guano on the surface ..."
3. Report of the State Board of Forestry and of the State Park Committee of the by Indiana State Board of Forestry (1906)
"This overcrop does not seemingly have any damaging effects upon the young trees,
as they grow well under the oats crop and the weeds do not thus overcome ..."
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