crop

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Old English cropp (head or top of a sprout or herb).

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crop (plural crops)

  1. 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.
    a crop of ideas
  4. The lashing end of a whip
  5. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
  6. A rocky outcrop.
  7. The act of cropping.
  8. A short haircut.
  9. (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.
    • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", 2005 Norton edition, page 221:
      The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.
  10. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
  11. (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.

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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 cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
  3. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
  4. (intransitive) To yield harvest.

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