crop

Meaning

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 production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
3. (figuratively) 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. (archaic, dialectal) 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. (in-plural, slang) Marijuana.

Verb

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

Synonyms

harvest

yield

produce

craw

cut

trim

graze

browse

pasture

clip

reap

prune

grain

product

ingathering

lop

goitre

cultivate

cut back

range

shear

snip

gizzard

work

culture

fruit

mow

cultivation

reaping

crops

production

maw

pick

⛏️

dock

plant

🌱

dress

👗

cut off

collection

curtail

cluster

bladder

cultivated plant

goiter

fruits

cull

chimney

bearing

amend

fruitage

forage

Translations

cosecha

Ernte

jabot

récolte

gozzo

oogst

Kropf

raccolto

συγκομιδή

moisson

colheita

récolter

σοδειά

opbrengst

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹɒp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: crop

Inherited from Old English: crop

Cognate with Dutch: krop

Cognate with German: Kropf

Cognate with Swedish: kropp

Cognate with Icelandic: kroppur

Inherited from Middle English: croppen

Inherited from Old English: *croppian

Cognate with Scots: crap

Cognate with Dutch: kroppen

Cognate with Low German: kröppen

Cognate with German: kröpfen

Cognate with Icelandic: kroppa

In summary

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.

Sentences

The greatest exertions are required to secure the crop .