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crop
[krop]
noun
the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered.
the wheat crop.
the yield of such produce for a particular season.
the yield of some other product in a season.
the crop of diamonds.
a supply produced.
a collection or group of persons or things appearing or occurring together.
this year's crop of students.
the stock or handle of a whip.
Also called riding crop.a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash.
Also called craw.Zoology.
a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings.
a chamber or pouch in the foregut of arthropods and annelids for holding and partly crushing food.
the act of cropping.
a mark produced by clipping the ears, as of cattle.
a close-cropped hairstyle.
a head of hair so cut.
an entire tanned hide of an animal.
Mining.an outcrop of a vein or seam.
verb (used with object)
to cut off or remove the head or top of (a plant, grass, etc.).
to cut off the ends or a part of.
to crop the ears of a dog.
to cut short.
cropped t-shirts.
to clip the ears, hair, etc., of.
Photography.to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative).
to cause to bear a crop or crops.
to graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.).
The sheep cropped the lawn.
verb (used without object)
to bear or yield a crop or crops.
to feed by cropping or grazing.
adjective
(of women’s casual garments) shorter than is usual.
a crop top that bares your midriff;
crop pants that end at mid-calf.
verb phrase
to appear, especially suddenly or unexpectedly.
A new problem cropped up.
Geologyto rise to the surface of the ground.
Veins of quartz crop out in the canyon walls.
to become evident or visible; occur.
A few cases of smallpox still crop out every now and then.
crop
/ ɒ /
noun
the produce of cultivated plants, esp cereals, vegetables, and fruit
the amount of such produce in any particular season
the yield of some other farm produce
the lamb crop
a group of products, thoughts, people, etc, appearing at one time or in one season
a crop of new publications
the stock of a thonged whip
short for riding crop
a pouchlike expanded part of the oesophagus of birds, in which food is stored or partially digested before passing on to the gizzard
a similar structure in insects, earthworms, and other invertebrates
the entire tanned hide of an animal
a short cropped hairstyle See also Eton crop
a notch in or a piece cut out of the ear of an animal
the act of cropping
verb
to cut (hair, grass, etc) very short
to cut and collect (mature produce) from the land or plant on which it has been grown
to clip part of (the ear or ears) of (an animal), esp as a means of identification
(also intr) to cause (land) to bear or (of land) to bear or yield a crop
the land cropped well
(of herbivorous animals) to graze on (grass or similar vegetation)
photog to cut off or mask unwanted edges or areas of (a negative or print)
Other Word Forms
- cropless adjective
- noncrop adjective
- uncropped adjective
- well-cropped adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of crop1
Idioms and Phrases
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The internet is down forever, crops are dying, bees are extinct, the weather is erratic and famine is beginning to plague the world.
They care for our children, build our homes, dig our ditches, trim our trees, clean our homes, hotels and businesses, wash our dishes, pick our crops, sew our clothes.
“Plants that seemed to be picked clean the day before are found bearing a new crop by the next morning.”
The short clip shows a man running in a vast field of crops, through a haze of thick morning fog, as agents give chase on foot and in trucks.
"These low-chill apples can be grown as novelty fruit in a kitchen garden, but their viability as a commercial crop is not proven... most of them are a failure," he says.
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