crop

Mane

Noun

1. 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.
2. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
3. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
4. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
5. The lashing end of a whip.
6. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
7. A rocky outcrop.
8. The act of cropping.
9. A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
10. A short haircut.
11. A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
12. The foliate part of a finial.
13. The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
14. Tin ore prepared for smelting.
15. An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
16. An entire oxhide.
17. (slang) Marijuana.

Verb

1. To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
2. To mow, reap or gather.
3. To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
4. To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
5. To yield harvest.
6. To cause to bear a crop.
7. To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.

Wekî (IPA) tê gotin

/kɹɒp/

Etîmolojî

From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English crop, 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”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Icelandic kroppur (“a hunch on the body”). Related to crap, doublet of group and croup.