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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Examples of "crop" in Sentences
- Coffee is the major crop in the region.
- Arable farming is the production of crops.
- The larvae defoliate various agricultural crops.
- In the orchards, pears are the predominant crop.
- The rice crop was the staple crop until the Civil War.
- The primary crop grown in the area is corn and soybeans.
- It is unknown if it contributes to the pollination of the crop.
- Crops like hay, corn and barley can be produced in the dry land.
- _Dibong_ Mishmees, who are always known by the term crop-haired.
- Continued dry weather could again parch crops like corn and soybeans.
- Of the various crops grown by the Aztecs, maize was the most important crop.
- In our country the crop that is most valuable and that occupies the greatest land area is generally known as the _grass crop_.
- Despite this decades-old advice from It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, this year's local pumpkin crop is worth talking about.
- Murray informs us that up to half of the yearly raisin crop is confiscated by the government, in order to insure scarcity and higher prices.
- After a time he stopped short, and from the steady _crop, crop, crop_, I knew he was amongst grass; and he grazed away long enough before moving on again at his old amble.
- The poppies with which this Isis was crowned, signified the joy men received at their first abundant crop, the word which signifies a _double crop_, being also a name for the _poppy_.
- But these men, who have been paid up in full for last year's crop, and have seen that their crop, slim as it was, brought them a fair compensation, are bound to show _a crop_ this year.
- For the _crop, crop, crop_ of the browsing animals had begun again from close at hand, and the comrades stood listening for some little time while the otherwise unbroken stillness once more reigned.
- The answer to that question had not been arrived at when they dropped asleep, lulled by the sound of rippling water and the _crop, crop, crop_ made by the grazing ponies, and this time their weariness was so great that sleep overcame them both.
- And so it was here; for as Bart sat munching there in the delicious restfulness of his position, with the soft warm breeze just playing through the leaves, the golden sunshine raining down amongst the leaves and branches in dazzling streams, while the pleasant whirr and hum of insects was mingled with the gentle _crop, crop, crop_ of Black Boy's teeth as he feasted on the succulent growth around, all tended to produce drowsiness, and in a short time he found himself nodding.
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