crop

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Pronunciation
/kɹɒp/
/kɹɑp/
Noun
16 definition(s)
1 Definition

A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

Example Sentences
  • the farmer had lots of crops to sell at the market
2 Definition

The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.

Example Sentences
  • it was a good crop of lambs that year
3 Definition

A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.

Example Sentences
  • a crop of ideas
4 Definition

A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease

Example Sentences
  • Like in chicken pox.
5 Definition

The lashing end of a whip

6 Definition

An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.

7 Definition

A rocky outcrop.

8 Definition

The act of cropping.

9 Definition

A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.

10 Definition

A short haircut.

11 Definition

A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion, or for regurgitation; a craw.

12 Definition

The foliate part of a finial.

13 Definition

The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.

14 Definition

Tin ore prepared for smelting.

15 Definition

Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

16 Definition

An entire oxhide.

Verb
6 definition(s)
1 Definition

To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

2 Definition

To mow, reap or gather.

3 Definition

To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.

4 Definition

To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.

5 Definition

To yield harvest.

6 Definition

To cause to bear a crop.

Example Sentences
  • to crop a field