crop

/kɹɒp//kɹɑp/

noun

  1. 1

    A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

    the farmer had lots of crops to sell at the market
  2. 2

    The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.

    it was a good crop of lambs that year
  3. 3

    A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.

    a crop of ideas
  4. 4

    A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease

    Like in chicken pox.
  5. 5

    The lashing end of a whip

  6. 6

    An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.

  7. 7

    A rocky outcrop.

  8. 8

    The act of cropping.

  9. 9

    A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.

  10. 10

    A short haircut.

  11. 11

    A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion, or for regurgitation; a craw.

  12. 12

    The foliate part of a finial.

  13. 13

    The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.

  14. 14

    Tin ore prepared for smelting.

  15. 15

    Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

  16. 16

    An entire oxhide.

verb

  1. 1

    To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

  2. 2

    To mow, reap or gather.

  3. 3

    To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.

  4. 4

    To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.

  5. 5

    To yield harvest.

  6. 6

    To cause to bear a crop.

    to crop a field

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