crop
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (6)crops
- the yield from plants in a single growing seasonSynonyms: harvestType of output, yieldKinds fruitage
- a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scaleType of plant, floraKinds catch crop, field crop, root crop, cover crop, cash crop
- a collection of people or things appearing together“the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas”Type of collection, aggregation
- the output of something in a season“the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores”Type of end product, output
- the stock or handle of a whipType of handle, gripPart of whip
- a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of foodSynonyms: crawType of stomach, tummy
Verb (6)cropped, cropping, crops
- cut short“She wanted her hair cropped short”More general cut
- prepare for crops“Work the soil”“cultivate the land”Synonyms: cultivateworkMore general fix, prepareMore specific overcrop, overcultivateSimilar knead, work
- yield crops“This land crops well”More general bear, turn out
- let feed in a field or pasture or meadowSynonyms: grazepastureMore general feed, giveMore specific grass, driftSimilar browse, graze
- feed as in a meadow or pasture“the herd was grazing”Synonyms: browsegrazerangepastureMore general feed, eatSimilar range, graze
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of“dress the plants in the garden”Synonyms: snipcliptrimlopdressprunecut backMore general thin outMore specific shear, disbud, top, poll
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Translations
Noun part of bird's or other animal's alimentary tract
Noun plant grown for any economic purpose
- Spanish
- cultivo
- French
- culture
- Italian
- coltura
- Turkish
- ekin
- Arabic
- مَحْصُول maḥṣūl
- Chinese
- 作物 zuòwù
- Dutch
- gewas
- Swedish
- gröda
- Hungarian
- termény
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 作物 zuòwù
6 more languages
- Catalan
- conreu
- Czech
- plodina
- Danish
- afgrøde
- Esperanto
- rikoltaĵo
- Finnish
- viljelykasvi
- Latvian
- kultūraugs
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. crop, croppe, craw, top of a plant, harvest, AS. crop, cropp, craw, top, bunch, ear of corn; akin to D. krop craw, G. kropf, Icel. kroppr hump or bunch on the body, body; but cf. also W. cropa, croppa, crop or craw of a bird, Ir. & Gael. sgroban. Cf. Croup, Crupper, Croup.
1. The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. obsolete “Crop and root.” Geoffrey Chaucer
3. That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single field, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.
Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil.— John Milton
4. Grain or other product of the field while standing.
5. Anything cut off or gathered.
Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee.— John Dryden
6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
7. Architecture A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. obsolete
8. Mining. (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting. (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. Knight, Edward Henry
9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. colloquial
1. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.— Ezek. xvii. 22.
2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
Death....crops the growing boys.— Thomas Creech
3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
4. to cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; — of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop her photograph up to the shoulders.
To yield harvest.
To crop out. (a) Geology To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal. (b) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out. — To crop up, to sprout; to spring up; to appear suddenly. “Cares crop up in villas.” Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors