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Definition crop
Etymology 1
From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English crop, cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), Low German Krop (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Icelandic kroppur (“a hunch on the body”). Related to crap, doublet of group and croup.
Noun
crop (plural crops)
- (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
- A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease
- 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.
- (anatomy) 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.
- (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
- (archaic or dialectal) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- (mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- An entire oxhide.
Etymology 2
From Middle English croppen (“to cut, pluck and eat”), from Old English *croppian. Cognate with Scots crap (“to crop”), Dutch kroppen (“to cram, digest”), Low German kröppen (“to cut, crop, stuff the craw”), German kröpfen (“to crop”), Icelandic kroppa (“to cut, crop, pick”). Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1.
Verb
crop (third-person singular simple present crops, present participle cropping, simple past and past participle cropped)
- (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
- (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
- (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
- (intransitive) To yield harvest.
- (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
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