crop.
A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
Meaning & usage
A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?
The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!
A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.
The university had an exceptional crop of graduates in 1892, including three who went on to win Nobel Prizes.
A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
The lashing end of a whip.
An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
A rocky outcrop.
The act of cropping.
A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
A short haircut.
She went from a ponytail to a crop.
Eton crop
A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
The foliate part of a finial.
The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
Tin ore prepared for smelting.
An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
An entire oxhide.
Marijuana.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Doublet of group. Cognates Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Faroese and Icelandic kroppur (“body”). Related to crap. Doublet of group and croup.
To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
To mow, reap or gather.
To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
To yield harvest.
To cause to bear a crop.
To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English croppen (“to cut, pluck and eat”), from Old English *croppian. Cognate with Scots crap (“to crop”), Dutch kroppen (“to cram, digest”), Low German kröppen (“to cut, crop, stuff the craw”), German kröpfen (“to crop”), Icelandic kroppa (“to cut, crop, pick”). Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1.
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