Phrase guide

crop rotation

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A farming practice in which the same land is used to grow different crops in successive seasons or years (when once the land would have been left fallow); used to prevent erosion and increase fertility.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle

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Across languages

Translations

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: دَوْرَة زِرَاعِيَّة (dawra zirāʕiyya) — farming practice
  • Bulgarian: редуване на културите (reduvane na kulturite) — farming practice
  • Bulgarian: сеитбообръщение (seitboobrǎštenie) — farming practice
  • Bulgarian: сеитбооборо́т (seitbooborót) — farming practice
  • Catalan: rotació de conreus — farming practice
  • Chinese Mandarin: 輪作 /轮作 (lúnzuò) — farming practice
  • Czech: střídání plodin — farming practice
  • Dutch: gewasrotatie — farming practice
  • Dutch: vruchtwisseling — farming practice
  • Dutch: wisselteelt — farming practice
  • Finnish: kiertoviljely — farming practice
  • Finnish: vuoroviljely — farming practice
  • Finnish: viljelykierto — farming practice
  • French: assolement — farming practice
  • Georgian: თესლბრუნვა (teslbrunva) — farming practice
  • Georgian: კულტურათა მორიგეობა (ḳulṭurata morigeoba) — farming practice
  • Georgian: კულტურათა მონაცვლეობა (ḳulṭurata monacvleoba) — farming practice
  • Georgian: კულტურათა როტაცია (ḳulṭurata roṭacia) — farming practice
  • Georgian: სასოფლო-სამეურნეო კულტურების მორიგეობა (sasoplo-sameurneo ḳulṭurebis morigeoba) — farming practice
  • German: Fruchtwechsel — farming practice
  • German: Fruchtfolge — farming practice
  • German: Felderwirtschaft — farming practice
  • Greek: αμειψισπορά (ameipsisporá) — farming practice
  • Hungarian: vetésforgó — farming practice
  • Italian: rotazione delle colture — farming practice
  • Korean: 윤작 (yunjak) — farming practice
  • Latvian: augseka — farming practice
  • Lithuanian: sėjomaina — farming practice
  • Macedonian: плодоред (plodored) — farming practice
  • Maltese: newba — farming practice
  • Maltese: rotazzjoni tal-għelejjel — farming practice
  • Polish: płodozmian — farming practice
  • Portuguese: rotação de culturas — farming practice
  • Romanian: asolament — farming practice
  • Romanian: rotație a culturilor — farming practice
  • Russian: севооборо́т (sevooborót) — farming practice
  • Russian: многопо́лье (mnogopólʹje) — farming practice
  • Serbo-Croatian: пло̏доре̄д — farming practice
  • Serbo-Croatian: plȍdorēd — farming practice
  • Slovak: striedanie plodín — farming practice
  • Slovene: kolobarjenje — farming practice
  • Spanish: rotación de cultivos — farming practice
  • Swedish: växelbruk — farming practice
  • Ukrainian: сівозмі́на (sivozmína) — farming practice
  • Welsh: cylchdro cnydau — farming practice