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Princeton's WordNet

  1. crop, harvestnoun

    the yield from plants in a single growing season

  2. cropnoun

    a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale

  3. cropnoun

    a collection of people or things appearing together

    "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"

  4. cropnoun

    the output of something in a season

    "the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores"

  5. cropnoun

    the stock or handle of a whip

  6. craw, cropverb

    a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

  7. cropverb

    cut short

    "She wanted her hair cropped short"

  8. cultivate, crop, workverb

    prepare for crops

    "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"

  9. cropverb

    yield crops

    "This land crops well"

  10. crop, graze, pastureverb

    let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

  11. crop, browse, graze, range, pastureverb

    feed as in a meadow or pasture

    "the herd was grazing"

  12. snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut backverb

    cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

    "dress the plants in the garden"

GCIDE

  1. Cropverb

    to cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop her photograph up to the shoulders.

Wiktionary

  1. cropnoun

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

  2. cropnoun

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

  3. cropnoun

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

    a crop of ideas

  4. cropnoun

    The lashing end of a whip

  5. cropnoun

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

  6. cropnoun

    A rocky outcrop.

  7. cropnoun

    The act of cropping.

  8. cropnoun

    A short haircut.

  9. cropnoun

    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.

  10. cropverb

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

  11. cropverb

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

  12. cropverb

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

  13. cropnoun

    The foliate part of a finial.

  14. cropnoun

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. CROPnoun

    The craw of a bird; the first stomach into which her meat descends.

    Etymology: crop, Saxon.

    In birds there is no mastication or comminution of the meat in the mouth; but in such as are not carnivorous, it is immediately swallowed into the crop or craw. John Ray, on the Creation.

    But flutt’ring there, they nestle near the throne,
    And lodge in habitations not their own,
    By their high crops and corny gizzards known. Dryden.

  2. Cropnoun

    Etymology: crop, Saxon.

    And this of all my harvest hope I have,
    Nought reaped but a weedy crop of care. Edmund Spenser, Past.

    Lab’ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop,
    Corn, wine, and oil. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. xii.

    The fountain which from Helicon proceeds,
    That sacred stream, should never water weeds,
    Nor make the crop of thorns and thistles grow. Wentworth Dillon.

    Nothing is more prejudicial to your crop than mowing of it too soon, because the sap is not fully come out of the root. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

    Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free,
    It falls a plenteous crop reserv’d for thee. John Dryden, Fables.

  3. To Cropverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Crop’d are the flower-de-luces in your arms;
    Of England’s coat, one half is cut away. William Shakespeare, Hen. VI.

    He, upon whose side
    The fewest roses are crop’d from the tree,
    Shall yield the other in the right opinion. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

    All the budding honours on thy crest
    I’ll crop, to make a garland for my head. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.

    I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent. Ezek. xvii. 22.

    There are some tears of trees, which are combed from the beards of goats; for when the goats bite and crop them, especially in the mornings, the dew being on, the tear cometh forth, and hangeth upon their beards. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

    O Fruit divine!
    Sweet of thyself, but much more sweet thus crop’d. John Milton.

    Age, like ripe apples, on earth’s bosom drops;
    While force our youth, like fruits, untimely crops. John Denham.

    Death destroys
    The parent’s hopes, and crops the growing boys. Thomas Creech.

    No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb
    The steepy cliffs, or crop the flow’ry thyme! John Dryden, Virgil.

  4. To Cropverb

    To yield harvest.

    Royal wench!
    She made great Cæsar lay his sword to-bed;
    He plough’d her, and she cropt. William Shakespeare, Anth. and Cleopatra.

Wikipedia

  1. crop

    A crop is a plant grown and harvested for agricultural use.

ChatGPT

  1. crop

    A crop is a plant or plant product that is grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. It can refer to both the product gathered from a particular harvest and the agricultural term for cultivated plants. Crops can include grains, fruits, vegetables, and other agricultural commodities.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Cropnoun

    the pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw

  2. Cropnoun

    the top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree

  3. Cropnoun

    that which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest

  4. Cropnoun

    grain or other product of the field while standing

  5. Cropnoun

    anything cut off or gathered

  6. Cropnoun

    hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop

  7. Cropnoun

    a projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial

  8. Cropnoun

    tin ore prepared for smelting

  9. Cropnoun

    outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface

  10. Cropnoun

    a riding whip with a loop instead of a lash

  11. Cropverb

    to cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap

  12. Cropverb

    fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest

  13. Cropverb

    to cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field

  14. Cropverb

    to yield harvest

  15. Etymology: [OE. crop, croppe, craw, top of a plant, harvest, AS. crop, cropp, craw, top, bunch, ear of corn; akin to D. krop craw, G. kropf, Icel. kroppr hump or bunch on the body, body; but cf. also W. cropa, croppa, crop or craw of a bird, Ir. & Gael. sgroban. Cf. Croup, Crupper, Croup.]

Wikidata

  1. Crop

    A crop is a volunteered or cultivated plant whose product is harvested by a human at some point of its growth stage. Plants which have not been cultivated but whose product are harvested, are not really classified as crops. The same goes for plants which have been planted, but are never harvested. Flowers are classified as crops because when it has been cultivated, its harvesting also include the aesthetic purpose it serves. Crops refer to plants of same kind that are grown on a large scale for food, clothing, and other human uses. They are non-animal species or varieties grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, fuel or for any other economic purpose. Major crops include sugarcane, pumpkin, maize, wheat, rice, cassava, soybeans, hay, potatoes and cotton. While the term "crop" most commonly refers to plants, it can also include species from other biological kingdoms. For example, mushrooms like shiitake, which are in the fungi kingdom, can be referred to as "crops". In addition, certain species of algae are also cultivated, although it is also harvested from the wild. In contrast, animal species that are raised by humans are called livestock, except those that are kept as pets. Microbial species, such as bacteria or viruses, are referred to as cultures. Microbes are not typically grown for food, but are rather used to alter food. For example, bacteria are used to ferment milk to produce yogurt.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Crop

    krop, n. all the produce of a field of grain: anything gathered or cropped: an entire ox-hide: the craw of a bird: (archit.) a finial: a whip-handle: the cutting the hair short.—v.t. to cut off the top or ends: to cut short or close: to mow, reap, or gather.—v.i. to yield:—pr.p. crop′ping; pa.p. cropped.—n. Crop′-ear, one having cropped or cut ears.—adj. Crop′ful (Milt.), satiated.—ns. Crop′per, one who or that which crops: a plant which furnishes a crop: one who raises a crop for a share of it: a kind of fancy pigeon remarkable for its large crop; Crop′ping, act of cutting off: the raising of crops: (geol.) an outcrop; Crop′py, one of the Irish rebels of 1798 who cut their hair short in imitation of the French Revolutionists.—adj. Crop′-sick, sick of a surfeit.—Crop out, to appear above the surface; Crop up, to come up incidentally. [A.S. crop, the top shoot of a plant, the crop of a bird; Dut. crop, a bird's crop.]

Editors Contribution

  1. crop

    A variety of cultivar, plant and seed.

    There are a large variety of crops grown throughout the world


    Submitted by MaryC on March 13, 2020  

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Entomology

  1. Crop

    the dilated portion of the alimentary canal behind the gullet which serves to receive and hold the food previous to its slower passage through the digestive tract: = ingluvies.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. CROP

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Crop is ranked #148347 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Crop surname appeared 111 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Crop.

    93.6% or 104 total occurrences were White.
    4.5% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'crop' in Nouns Frequency: #1361

Anagrams for crop »

  1. corp.

  2. proc

  3. copr

  4. corp

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of crop in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of crop in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of crop in a Sentence

  1. Joe McConnell:

    While we can't actually prove how the extreme weather and resulting crop failures, food shortages and epidemic disease contributed to the downfall of Roman Republic 2,000 years ago, it seems only logical that it must have played a significant role.

  2. Florent Beda:

    The winds are really strong. They can make flowers and cherelles fall from the trees and reduce the harvest, if everything goes well, there will be more harvesting in May and June and the mid-crop won't stop until September.

  3. Raphael Kouame:

    From July we will begin to prepare for the main crop.

  4. John Buttolph:

    I felt I had to take what was a handful of seed corn and plant it and nurture and grow another crop or cycle of Mrs. Winner’s.

  5. Ken LaGrande:

    Sun Valley Rice now is a fully integrated arm of the family business,' from farm to fork' if you will, we source rice from 200 farms, or about 10 % of the rice crop gown in California. And we handle drying, milling, packaging and marketing of the rice.

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Translations for crop

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  • محصولArabic
  • гуша, множество, култура, жътва, посев, къса подстрижка, кастря, стрижаBulgarian
  • ořez, ořezatCzech
  • afgrødeDanish
  • Gerte, Kehlsack, Kropf, Getreide, ausschneidenGerman
  • vipeto, rikoltaĵo, kropoEsperanto
  • agosto, cultivo, rapado, buche, fusta, cosecha, rapar, recortarSpanish
  • sato, viljelyskasvi, kupu, raippa, siilitukka, piiska, kallio, viljelykasvi, siili, ratsupiiska, ryöppy, satokasvi, typistää, leikata, rajataFinnish
  • récolte, jabot, cravache, découperFrench
  • buain, sgròbanScottish Gaelic
  • יבולHebrew
  • եզրատելArmenian
  • tanamanIndonesian
  • massa, raccolto, coltura, rapata, gozzo, frustino, mucchio, messeItalian
  • 鞭, 短髪, 作物, 嗉囊, 収穫量, 収穫, 集まりJapanese
  • ಎರೆಚೀಲKannada
  • 멀떠구니Korean
  • seges, messisLatin
  • tenga, nae, tāngaengae, huanga kai, mutumutu, parekuhiMāori
  • bros, opbrengst, voedselplant, gewas, keelzak, voedselgewas, krop, rijzweepje, oogst, bijknippen, bijsnijden, brosknippenDutch
  • kroNorwegian Nynorsk
  • kroNorwegian
  • wysyp, plonPolish
  • açoite, colheita, papo, chibata, safra, cultura, encurtar, podar, recortarPortuguese
  • păr scurt, recoltă, cultură, gușă, cravașă, cultiva, decupa, tăia, tunde, culegeRomanian
  • зоб, обнажение, сельскохозяйственная культура, выход на поверхность, урожай, посев, обрезать, срезать, купировать, ([[коротко]]) [[подстригать]], культураRussian
  • berba, jahaći bič, usjev, potkratiti, skratitiSerbo-Croatian
  • pridelekSlovene
  • gröda, skörd, beskäraSwedish
  • పంటTelugu
  • ekinTurkish
  • 作物Chinese

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