'Crop' definitions:

Definition of 'crop'

(from WordNet)
noun
The yield from plants in a single growing season [syn: crop, harvest]
noun
A cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
noun
A collection of people or things appearing together; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"
noun
The output of something in a season; "the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores"
noun
The stock or handle of a whip
noun
A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food [syn: craw, crop]
verb
Cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short"
verb
Prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land" [syn: cultivate, crop, work]
verb
Yield crops; "This land crops well"
verb
Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow [syn: crop, graze, pasture]
verb
Feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn: crop, browse, graze, range, pasture]
verb
Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back]

Definition of 'Crop'

From: GCIDE
  • Crop \Crop\ (kr[o^]p), n. [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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. [Obs.] "Crop and root." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Grain or other product of the field while standing. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Anything cut off or gathered. [1913 Webster]
  • Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Mining.) (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting. (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. [1913 Webster]
  • Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Crop'

From: GCIDE
  • Crop \Crop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cropped (kr[o^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cropping.]
  • 1. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap. [1913 Webster]
  • I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one. --Ezek. xvii. 22. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. [1913 Webster]
  • Death . . . .crops the growing boys. --Creech. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [PJC]

Definition of 'Crop'

From: GCIDE
  • Crop \Crop\, v. i. To yield harvest. [1913 Webster]
  • To crop out. (a) (Geol.) 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." --Beaconsfield. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'crop'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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