crop
noun
- 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
The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
“it was a good crop of lambs that year”
- 3
A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
“a crop of ideas”
- 4
A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease
“Like in chicken pox.”
- 5
The lashing end of a whip
- 6
An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
- 7
A rocky outcrop.
- 8
The act of cropping.
- 9
A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- 10
A short haircut.
- 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
The foliate part of a finial.
- 13
The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- 14
Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- 15
Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- 16
An entire oxhide.
verb
- 1
To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- 2
To mow, reap or gather.
- 3
To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
- 4
To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- 5
To yield harvest.
- 6
To cause to bear a crop.
“to crop a field”
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