crop
IPA: krˈɑp
noun
- (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.
- (figurative) 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 rocky outcrop.
- The act of cropping.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- 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.
- (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
- (archaic or dialect) 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) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- An entire oxhide.
- (slang, in the plural) Marijuana.
verb
- (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 other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- (intransitive) To yield harvest.
- (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
- (transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
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