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),cropped or (Archaic) cropt;crop·ping.
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),cropped or (Archaic) cropt;crop·ping.
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 Phrases
crop out,
Geology, Mining.to 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 up,to appear, especially suddenly or unexpectedly: A new problem cropped up.
Origin of crop
First recorded before 900; Middle English, Old English crop, cropp “sprout, ear of wheat (or other grain), paunch, crown of a tree”; cognate with German Kropf; see croup2
synonym study for crop
1. Crop,harvest,produce,yield refer to the return in food obtained from land at the end of a season of growth. Crop, the term common in agricultural and commercial use, denotes the amount produced at one cutting or for one particular season: the potato crop.Harvest denotes either the time of reaping and gathering, or the gathering, or that which is gathered: the season of harvest; to work in a harvest; a ripe harvest.Produce especially denotes household vegetables: Produce from the fields and gardens was taken to market.Yield emphasizes what is given by the land in return for expenditure of time and labor: There was a heavy yield of grain this year.
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