crop
Pronunciation: /kɹɒp/
The English word “crop” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
- 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.
- A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
- The foliate part of a finial.
- The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- An entire oxhide.
- Marijuana.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Doublet of group. Cognates Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”),…
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