cultivo

/kulˈtibo/ · B2 · noun · m

crop

cultivo — crop

🌾🌱 cultivo = cultivate: the same root as culture, crops tended and grown

Cultivo looks almost like English cultivate, and it shares the Latin root colere, meaning to tend. Whatever you tend and grow is a cultivo: a field crop, the act of farming, or bacteria grown in a lab dish (a culture).

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