'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
verb
Yield crops; "This land crops well"
verb
verb
verb
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
- abbreviate,
- abdomen,
- abomasum,
- abridge,
- abscind,
- abstract,
- aftermath,
- amputate,
- annihilate,
- bag,
- ban,
- bar,
- batch,
- batten upon,
- bay window,
- bearing,
- beerbelly,
- belly,
- belt,
- blacksnake,
- bob,
- boil down,
- boobs,
- bosom,
- breadbasket,
- breast,
- breasts,
- bring in,
- brisket,
- browse,
- bullwhack,
- bullwhip,
- bumper crop,
- bunch,
- bust,
- capsulize,
- cat,
- chest,
- chop,
- clip,
- clump,
- cluster,
- compress,
- condense,
- contract,
- copse,
- cowhide,
- craw,
- crop herbs,
- cull,
- curtail,
- cut,
- cut away,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- cut off,
- cut off short,
- cut out,
- cut short,
- cutting,
- detach,
- diaphragm,
- dig,
- disengage,
- dock,
- dryfarm,
- dug,
- elide,
- eliminate,
- embonpoint,
- enucleate,
- epitomize,
- eradicate,
- except,
- excise,
- exclude,
- extinguish,
- extirpate,
- farm,
- fatten on,
- fatten upon,
- feast on,
- feast upon,
- feed on,
- first stomach,
- flagellum,
- fleece,
- foreshorten,
- fruit,
- garden,
- gather,
- gather in,
- gathering,
- gizzard,
- glean,
- gleaning,
- grabble,
- graze,
- group,
- grouping,
- groupment,
- grove,
- grow,
- growth,
- gullet,
- gut,
- harvest,
- harvesting,
- hassock,
- hay,
- head,
- head of hair,
- hew,
- honeycomb stomach,
- horsewhip,
- isolate,
- kishkes,
- knock off,
- knockers,
- knot,
- knout,
- kurbash,
- lash,
- live on,
- locks,
- lop,
- lot,
- make,
- mama,
- mamelon,
- mamelonation,
- mammary gland,
- mammilla,
- mammillation,
- mane,
- manyplies,
- mat,
- maw,
- mess,
- midriff,
- mop,
- mow,
- mutilate,
- nenes,
- net,
- nip,
- nipple,
- nut,
- nutting,
- omasum,
- output,
- pap,
- papilla,
- pare,
- pasture on,
- paunch,
- peel,
- pick,
- pick out,
- pigeon breast,
- plantation,
- planting,
- pluck,
- poll,
- pollard,
- pot,
- potbelly,
- potgut,
- prey on,
- proceeds,
- produce,
- product,
- production,
- prune,
- psalterium,
- pusgut,
- quirt,
- raise,
- ranch,
- rawhide,
- razor strap,
- reap,
- reap and carry,
- reaping,
- rear,
- recap,
- recapitulate,
- reduce,
- rennet bag,
- reticulum,
- retrench,
- root out,
- rule out,
- rumen,
- scourge,
- second crop,
- second stomach,
- set apart,
- set aside,
- shag,
- sharecrop,
- shave,
- shear,
- shock,
- shorten,
- sjambok,
- skive,
- slash,
- slew,
- snip,
- snub,
- spare tire,
- stamp out,
- stand,
- stomach,
- stook,
- strap,
- strike off,
- strip,
- strip off,
- stunt,
- sum up,
- summarize,
- swagbelly,
- synopsize,
- take in,
- take off,
- take out,
- teat,
- telescope,
- thatch,
- thicket,
- third stomach,
- thong,
- thorax,
- throughput,
- tit,
- tits,
- titties,
- titty,
- top,
- tresses,
- trim,
- truncate,
- tuft,
- tum-tum,
- tummy,
- tussock,
- udder,
- underbelly,
- ventripotence,
- vintage,
- whip,
- whiplash,
- wipe out,
- wisp,
- yield
Words containing 'Crop'
- -cropped,
- -cropping,
- Cropful,
- Cropped,
- Cropping,
- To crop out,
- To crop up,
- crop out,
- crop up,
- Catch crop,
- Cover crop,
- Fallow crop,
- Green crop,
- Neck and crop,
- Rotation of crops,
- Succession of crops,
- White crop,
- Winter crop,
- cash crop,
- cream of the crop,
- crop failure,
- field crop,
- hunting crop,
- riding crop,
- root crop,
- strip cropping,
- Catch-cropping,
- Crop-ear,
- Crop-eared,
- Crop-tailed,
- Wamble-cropped,
- crop-dusting,
- field-crop,
- Way-going crop