Dictionary Definition
crop
Noun
1 the yield from plants in a single growing
season [syn: harvest]
2 a collection of people or things appearing
together; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of
ideas"
3 the output of something in a season; "the
latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores"
4 the stock or handle of a whip
5 a pouch in many birds and some lower animals
that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of
food [syn: craw]
Verb
1 cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped
short"
3 yield crops; "This land crops well"
6 cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;
"dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back] [also:
cropping, cropped]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
cropp ‘head or top of a sprout or herb’.Noun
- A plant, especially a cereal, grown for food.
- The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
- A group, cluster or collection of things occuring at the same
time.
- a crop of idea
- The lashing end of a whip
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
- A rocky outcrop.
- The act of cropping.
- A short haircut.
- The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- 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.
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- 1892: The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle’ (Norton 2005 p.221)
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- the foliate part of a finial.
Synonyms
- (harvest): harvest, yield
- (whip used on horses): hunting crop, riding crop, whip, bat
- (animal's): craw (in birds)
Translations
plant grown for food
- Danish: afgrøde
- Dutch: gewas , voedselgewas , voedselplant
- Esperanto: rikoltaĵo
- Finnish: sato
- Russian: (сельскохозяйственная) культура ((sel’skoχozjájstvennaja) kul’túra)
harvest
whip
- Dutch: rijzweepje
- Finnish: ratsupiiska
- French: cravache
- German: Gerte
- Portuguese: açoite , chibata
- Spanish: fusta
rocky outcrop
- Russian: обнажение (obnažénije) , выход на поверхность (výχod na povérχnost’)
act of cropping
- Czech: ořez
short haircut
part of animal’s alimentary tract
Verb
- To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
- To remove the outer parts of a photography or image in order to frame the subject better.
Translations
to cut (hair/tail/ears) short
- Dutch: brosknippen
- Finnish: leikata, typistää
- Russian: (коротко) подстригать ((kórotko) podstrigát’, hair); обрезать (obrezát’, ears), купировать (kupírovat’, ears)
- Spanish: rapar
remove outer parts of (a photograph or image)
- Czech: ořezat
- Dutch: bijknippen, bijsnijden
- Finnish: rajata
- Russian: обрезать (obrezát’)
See also
Extensive Definition
A crop is any plant that is grown in significant
quantities to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or for any other economic
purpose. This category includes crop species as well as
agricultural techniques related to cropping.
There are many types of crops that are used for
industrial purposes. For example, cash crops,
are grown and harvested for the sole purpose of making profit, as
they are grown in large amounts in a certain area fitted for
growing crops.
crop in Bulgarian: Културно растение
crop in Czech: Užitkové rostliny
crop in German: Feldfrucht
crop in Lithuanian: Kultūriniai augalai
crop in Malay (macrolanguage): Tanaman
crop in Japanese: 農産物
crop in Simple English: Crop
crop in Swedish: Gröda
crop in Tamil: பயிர்
crop in Yiddish: תבואה
crop in Chinese: 农作物
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abbreviate, abdomen, abomasum, abridge, abscind, abstract, aftermath, amputate, annihilate, bag, ban, bar, batch, batten upon, bay window,
bearing, beerbelly, belly, belt, blacksnake, bob, boil down, boobs, bosom, breadbasket, breast, breasts, bring in, brisket, browse, bullwhack, bullwhip, bumper crop, bunch, bust, capsulize, cat, chest, chop, clip, clump, cluster, compress, condense, contract, copse, cowhide, craw, crop herbs, cull, curtail, cut, cut away, cut back, cut down,
cut off, cut off short, cut out, cut short, cutting, detach, diaphragm, dig, disengage, dock, dryfarm, dug, elide, eliminate, embonpoint, enucleate, epitomize, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, extinguish, extirpate, farm, fatten on, fatten upon, feast
on, feast upon, feed on, first stomach, flagellum, fleece, foreshorten, fruit, garden, gather, gather in, gathering, gizzard, glean, gleaning, grabble, graze, group, grouping, groupment, grove, grow, growth, gullet, gut, harvest, harvesting, hassock, hay, head, head of hair, hew, honeycomb stomach, horsewhip, isolate, kishkes, knock off, knockers, knot, knout, kurbash, lash, live on, locks, lop, lot, make, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mammary
gland, mammilla,
mammillation,
mane, manyplies, mat, maw, mess, midriff, mop, mow, mutilate, nenes, net, nip, nipple, nut, nutting, omasum, output, pap, papilla, pare, pasture on, paunch, peel, pick, pick out, pigeon breast,
plantation, planting, pluck, poll, pollard, pot, potbelly, potgut, prey on, proceeds, produce, product, production, prune, psalterium, pusgut, quirt, raise, ranch, rawhide, razor strap, reap, reap and carry, reaping, rear, recap, recapitulate, reduce, rennet bag, reticulum, retrench, root out, rule out,
rumen, scourge, second crop, second
stomach, set apart, set aside, shag, sharecrop, shave, shear, shock, shorten, sjambok, skive, slash, slew, snip, snub, spare tire, stamp out,
stand, stomach, stook, strap, strike off, strip, strip off, stunt, sum up, summarize, swagbelly, synopsize, take in, take off,
take out, teat, telescope, thatch, thicket, third stomach, thong, thorax, throughput, tit, tits, titties, titty, top, tresses, trim, truncate, tuft, tum-tum, tummy, tussock, udder, underbelly, ventripotence, vintage, whip, whiplash, wipe out, wisp, yield