crop

Meaning

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.

harvest

yield

pluck at

pull at

cereal grass

nibble at

riding whip

artificial product

whipstock

agriculture

crop plant

graze a pasture

sound bow

volume of production

ingluvies

crop-hide

crop end

top crop

waste head

scrap ends

wetseason

abbreviate

crop yield

cultivated plant

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹɒp/

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.