crop

Plural: crops

Noun

• the yield from plants in a single growing season
• a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
• a collection of people or things appearing together
  • "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"
• the output of something in a season
  • "the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores"
• the stock or handle of a whip
• a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
• 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 production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
• A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
• A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
• 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.
• 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: cropped, cropping, crops

• To cut off the top or ends of something.
• cut short
  • "She wanted her hair cropped short"
• prepare for crops
• yield crops
  • "This land crops well"
• let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
• feed as in a meadow or pasture
• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
• 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.

Examples

• Eton crop
• He had to CROP his expectations for a bingo after drawing only vowels.
• It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!
• She went from a ponytail to a crop.
• The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.
• 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 patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
• The university had an exceptional crop of graduates in 1892, including three who went on to win Nobel Prizes.

Synonyms

browse, clip, craw, cultivate, cut back, dress, graze, harvest, lop, pasture, prune, range, snip, trim, work, bat, hunting crop, riding crop, whip, yield

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