Origin of crop
before 900; Middle English, Old English: “sprout, ear of wheat (or other grain), paunch, crown of a tree”; cognate with German
Kropf; see
croup2
synonym study for crop
1.
Crop,
harvest,
produce,
yield refer to the return in food obtained from land at the end of a season of growth.
Crop, the term common in agricultural and commercial use, denotes the amount produced at one cutting or for one particular season:
the potato crop.
Harvest denotes either the time of reaping and gathering, or the gathering, or that which is gathered:
the season of harvest; to work in a harvest; a ripe harvest.
Produce especially denotes household vegetables:
Produce from the fields and gardens was taken to market.
Yield emphasizes what is given by the land in return for expenditure of time and labor:
There was a heavy yield of grain this year.
OTHER WORDS FROM crop
crop·less, adjective non·crop, adjective un·cropped, adjective well-cropped, adjectiveWords nearby crop
crookes tube,
crookesite,
crookneck,
crool,
croon,
crop,
crop circle,
crop duster,
crop milk,
crop out,
crop rotation
British Dictionary definitions for crop out (1 of 2)
crop out
verb
(intr, adverb)
(of a formation of rock strata) to appear or be exposed at the surface of the ground; outcrop
British Dictionary definitions for crop out (2 of 2)
crop
/ (krɒp) /
noun
verb crops, cropping or cropped (mainly tr)
Word Origin for crop
Old English
cropp; related to Old Norse
kroppr rump, body, Old High German
kropf goitre, Norwegian
kröypa to bend
Idioms and Phrases with crop out (1 of 2)
crop out
Rise to the surface, become visible or evident, as in These superstitions crop out time and again. This term originated in mining, where a stratum or vein of ore is said to crop out when it comes to the surface. [Mid-1800s]
Idioms and Phrases with crop out (2 of 2)
crop