crop

[ krop ]

/ krɒp /

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noun

the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop.

the yield of such produce for a particular season.

the yield of some other product in a season: the crop of diamonds.

a supply produced.

a collection or group of persons or things appearing or occurring together: this year's crop of students.

the stock or handle of a whip.

Also called riding crop. a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash.

Also called craw. Zoology.

a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings.
a chamber or pouch in the foregut of arthropods and annelids for holding and partly crushing food.

the act of cropping.

a mark produced by clipping the ears, as of cattle.

a close-cropped hair style.

a head of hair so cut.

an entire tanned hide of an animal.

Mining. an outcrop of a vein or seam.

verb (used with object), cropped or (Archaic) cropt; crop·ping.

to cut off or remove the head or top of (a plant, grass, etc.).

to cut off the ends or a part of: to crop the ears of a dog.

to cut short.

to clip the ears, hair, etc., of.

Photography. to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative).

to cause to bear a crop or crops.

to graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.): The sheep cropped the lawn.

verb (used without object), cropped or (Archaic) cropt; crop·ping.

to bear or yield a crop or crops.

to feed by cropping or grazing.

Verb Phrases

crop out,

Geology, Mining. to rise to the surface of the ground: Veins of quartz crop out in the canyon walls.
to become evident or visible; occur: A few cases of smallpox still crop out every now and then.

crop up, to appear, especially suddenly or unexpectedly: A new problem cropped up.

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, adjective

Words nearby crop

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British Dictionary definitions for crop up (1 of 2)

crop up

verb

(intr, adverb) informal to occur or appear, esp unexpectedly

British Dictionary definitions for crop up (2 of 2)

crop

/ (krɒp) /

noun

the produce of cultivated plants, esp cereals, vegetables, and fruit

the amount of such produce in any particular season
the yield of some other farm producethe lamb crop

a group of products, thoughts, people, etc, appearing at one time or in one season a crop of new publications

the stock of a thonged whip

short for riding crop

a pouchlike expanded part of the oesophagus of birds, in which food is stored or partially digested before passing on to the gizzard
a similar structure in insects, earthworms, and other invertebrates

the entire tanned hide of an animal

a short cropped hairstyle See also Eton crop

a notch in or a piece cut out of the ear of an animal

the act of cropping

verb crops, cropping or cropped (mainly tr)

to cut (hair, grass, etc) very short

to cut and collect (mature produce) from the land or plant on which it has been grown

to clip part of (the ear or ears) of (an animal), esp as a means of identification

(also intr) to cause (land) to bear or (of land) to bear or yield a crop the land cropped well

(of herbivorous animals) to graze on (grass or similar vegetation)

photog to cut off or mask unwanted edges or areas of (a negative or print)

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 up (1 of 2)

crop up

Appear unexpectedly or occasionally, as in One theory that crops up periodically is the influence of sunspots on stock prices, or We hope new talent will crop up in the next freshman class. [Mid-1800s]

Idioms and Phrases with crop up (2 of 2)

crop

In addition to the idioms beginning with crop

crop out
crop up

also see:

cream of the crop

BROWSE DICTIONARY

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crop

noun

verb (used with object), cropped or (Archaic) cropt; crop·ping.

verb (used without object), cropped or (Archaic) cropt; crop·ping.

Verb Phrases

Origin of crop

synonym study for crop

OTHER WORDS FROM crop

Words nearby crop

British Dictionary definitions for crop up (1 of 2)

verb

British Dictionary definitions for crop up (2 of 2)

noun

verb crops, cropping or cropped (mainly tr)

Word Origin for crop

Idioms and Phrases with crop up (1 of 2)

Idioms and Phrases with crop up (2 of 2)

BROWSE DICTIONARY

Learning

crop

noun

verb (used with object), cropped or (Archaic) cropt; crop·ping.

verb (used without object), cropped or (Archaic) cropt; crop·ping.

Verb Phrases

Origin of crop

synonym study for crop

OTHER WORDS FROM crop

Words nearby crop

Words related to crop up

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British Dictionary definitions for crop up (2 of 2)

noun

verb crops, cropping or cropped (mainly tr)

Word Origin for crop

Idioms and Phrases with crop up (1 of 2)

Idioms and Phrases with crop up (2 of 2)

British Dictionary definitions for crop up (1 of 2)