crop

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: krŏp, IPA: /krɒp/, X-SAMPA: /krQp/
• (US) enPR: kräp, IPA: /kɹɑp/, /kɹap/, X-SAMPA: /krAp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (harvest): harvest, yield
• (whip used on horses): hunting crop, riding crop, whip, bat
• (animal's): craw (in birds)

Related terms

crop duster crop dusting cropper hunting crop

riding crop sharecrop sharecropper

Translations

plant grown for food

• Bulgarian: посев (bg) (posev) m, култура (bg) (kultura) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 作物 (cmn) (zuòwù)

• Danish: afgrøde (da) c
• Dutch: gewas (nl) n, voedselgewas (nl) n, voedselplant (nl) m
• Esperanto: rikoltaĵo (eo)
• Finnish: viljelykasvi (fi), viljelyskasvi (fi), satokasvi (fi)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Getreide (de) n
• Italian: coltura (it) f, messe (it) f

• Japanese: 作物 (ja) (さくもつ, sakumotsu)
• Latin: seges (la), messis (la)
• Romanian: cultură (ro) f
• Russian: посев (ru) (posév) m, сельскохозяйственная культура (ru) (sel’skoxozjájstvennaja kul’tura) f
• Serbo-Croatian: usjev (sh)
• Slovene: pridelek (sl) n
• Spanish: cosecha (es) f, agosto (es) m
• Telugu: పంట (te) (paNTa)

natural production for a specific year

• Bulgarian: жътва (bg) (žǎtva) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 收穫 (cmn), 收获 (cmn) (shōuhuò)

• Dutch: oogst (nl) m, opbrengst (nl) m
• Esperanto: rikoltaĵo (eo)
• Finnish: sato (fi)
• French: récolte (fr) f
• Hebrew: יבול (he) (yevúl) m
• Italian: raccolto (it) m

• Japanese: 収穫量 (ja) (しゅうかくりょう, shūkakuryō)
• Polish: plon (pl) m
• Portuguese: colheita (pt) f
• Romanian: recoltă (ro) f
• Russian: урожай (ru) (urožáj) m
• Serbo-Croatian: berba (sh)
• Spanish: cosecha (es) f
• Telugu: పంట (te) (paNTa)

group, cluster or collection of things

• Bulgarian: множество (bg) (množestvo) n
• Finnish: ryöppy (fi)
• Italian: mucchio (it) m, massa (it) f

• Japanese: 集まり (ja) (あつまり, atsumari)
• Polish: wysyp (pl) m

lashing end of a whip

• Japanese: 柄 (ja) (え, e)

entire short whip; riding crop

• Dutch: rijzweepje (nl) n
• Esperanto: vipeto (eo)
• Finnish: piiska (fi), ratsupiiska (fi), raippa (fi)
• French: cravache (fr) m
• German: Gerte (de) f
• Italian: frustino (it) m

• Japanese: 鞭 (ja) (むち, muchi)
• Portuguese: açoite (pt) m, chibata (pt) f
• Romanian: cravașă (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian: jahaći bič (sh)
• Spanish: fusta (es) f

rocky outcrop

• Finnish: kallio (fi)
• Russian: обнажение (ru) (obnažénije) n, выход на поверхность (ru) (výχod na povérχnost’) m

act of cropping

• Czech: ořez (cs) m
• Japanese: 収穫 (ja) (しゅうかく, shūkaku)

• Scottish Gaelic: buain (gd) f

short haircut

• Bulgarian: къса подстрижка (bg) (kǎsa podstrižka)
• Dutch: bros (nl) m
• Finnish: siilitukka (fi), siili (fi)
• Italian: rapata (it) f

• Japanese: 短髪 (ja) (たんぱつ, tanpatsu)
• Romanian: păr scurt (ro)
• Spanish: rapado (es) m

part of bird's or animal’s alimentary tract

• Bulgarian: гуша (bg) (guša) f
• Dutch: krop (nl) m, keelzak (nl) m
• Esperanto: kropo (eo)
• Finnish: kupu (fi)
• French: jabot (fr) m
• German: Kropf (de) m, Kehlsack (de) m
• Italian: gozzo (it) m
• Japanese: 嗉囊 (ja) (そのう, sonō)

• Kannada: ಎರೆಚೀಲ (kn) (erecīla)
• Korean: 멀떠구니 (ko) (meolTteoguni)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kro (no) m

  Nynorsk: kro (nn) f

• Romanian: gușă (ro)
• Russian: зоб (ru) (zob) m
• Scottish Gaelic: (bird's) sgròban (gd) m

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 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.

Derived terms

• outcrop
• crop up

Translations

remove top part

• Bulgarian: кастря (bg) (kastrja)
• Portuguese: podar (pt)
• Romanian: recolta (ro), culege (ro), cultiva (ro)

• Russian: (branches) обрезать (ru) (obrezát’), (flowers) срезать (ru) (srezát’)
• Scottish Gaelic: buain (gd)

to cut (hair/tail/ears) short

• Bulgarian: стрижа (bg) (striža)
• Dutch: brosknippen (nl)
• Finnish: leikata (fi), typistää (fi)
• Jèrriais: touôser (hair)
• Romanian: tunde (ro)

• Russian: (hair) ‎(коротко) подстригать ((kórotko) podstrigát’) , (ears) обрезать (ru) (obrezát’), (ears) купировать (ru) (kupírovat’)
• Serbo-Croatian: potkratiti (sh), skratiti (sh)
• Spanish: rapar (es)

remove outer parts of (a photograph or image)

• Czech: ořezat (cs)
• Dutch: bijknippen (nl), bijsnijden (nl)
• Finnish: rajata (fi)
• French: découper (fr)

• German: ausschneiden (de)
• Romanian: decupa (ro), tăia (ro)
• Russian: обрезать (ru) (obrezát’)
• Spanish: recortar (es)

See also

• Wikipedia article on the crop of an animal
• Wikipedia article on riding crops
• Wikipedia article on cropping images

Anagrams

• corp.
• proc