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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)

  1. (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
  2. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
  3. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
  4. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease
  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 short haircut.
  10. (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.
  11. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
  12. (archaic or dialectal) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
  13. (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
  14. (mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
  15. 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)

  1. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
  2. (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
  3. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
  4. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
  5. (intransitive) To yield harvest.
  6. (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

Results 344 Words with the letters CROP

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CAPTOR 12
CARHOP 14
CARTOP 12
COOPER 12
COPERS 12
COPIER 12
COPPER 15
COPPRA 15
COPRAH 14
COPRAS 12
COPTER 12
CORPSE 12
CORPUS 13
CREPON 13
CROUPE 13
CROUPS 13
CROUPY 15
CRYPTO 14
ORPHIC 14
PICARO 12
RECOPY 14
RECOUP 13
SCROOP 12
TROPIC 12
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COPER 11
COPRA 11
CORPS 11
CROPS 11
CROUP 12
PORCH 13
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COP 9
COR 6
ORC 6
PRO 6
ROC 6
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OR 2

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