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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