crop
/krɔp/
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Definition
Noun:
- A cultivated plant grown for agricultural purposes: Refers to plants that are grown on a large scale to be harvested as food, fodder, fuel, or for any other economic purpose.
- The total yield of such plants in a single season or from a specific area: The amount of a particular agricultural product harvested in one season.
- A group or collection of similar things or people appearing at the same time: A batch or set of things or people that appear, are produced, or become available together.
- A pouch in a bird's or insect's esophagus where food is stored and softened: A specialized part of the digestive tract.
- The stock or handle of a whip: The short, stiff part of a whip held by the user.
- A short hairstyle: Hair that is cut very short.
- The act of cutting something short: The result of such an action.
Verb:
- To cut something, especially hair, plants, or the edges of something, very short: To trim or reduce the length.
- To cultivate land and grow plants for harvest: To prepare and use land for agriculture.
- (Of an animal) to bite off and eat the tops of plants: To graze on grass or other vegetation.
- To yield or produce a harvest: To bear a productive yield of plants.
- To appear or come to the surface unexpectedly: To emerge or become apparent.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- Wheat is the main crop in this region.
- This year's corn crop was excellent due to good weather.
- The university welcomes a new crop of freshmen every fall.
- The bird stores food in its crop before digestion.
- She got a very short crop that suits her face perfectly.
Verb:
- He decided to crop his hair for the summer.
- Farmers crop this field with soybeans.
- The sheep were cropping the grass in the meadow.
- This land crops well, producing high yields.
- A difficult problem cropped up during the meeting.
Advanced Usage
- "To crop up": To appear or happen suddenly or unexpectedly.
- Issues always seem to crop up at the last minute.
- "Neck and crop": Completely or entirely; without reservation.
- They were thrown out neck and crop.
- "Land in/under crop": Land that is currently being used to grow cultivated plants.
- Most of the valley is land under crop.
Variants and Related Words
- Cropper (n): A person or machine that harvests crops. ()
- Cropping (n): The action of cutting or the result of being cut short. ()
- Cash crop (n): A crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower. ()
- Cover crop (n): A crop grown primarily to manage soil quality and prevent erosion. ()
Synonyms
- Noun (Harvest): Yield, produce, harvest.
- Noun (Batch): Batch, lot, group, assortment.
- Verb (Cut): Trim, clip, shear, prune.
- Verb (Grow): Cultivate, farm, raise.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Crop out: (Of a rock or geological formation) to appear or be exposed at the surface of the earth.
- Granite crops out on the hillside.
- Crop up: To occur or appear unexpectedly.
- Old memories can crop up when you least expect them.
Related Idioms
- A crop of: A large number of similar things that appear or are produced at the same time.
- The scandal produced a whole new crop of rumors.
- To come a cropper: To fail badly or suffer a sudden misfortune.
- His latest business venture came a cropper.
Noun
- a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
- the stock or handle of a whip
- the output of something in a season
- the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores
- a collection of people or things appearing together
- the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas
- a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
- the yield from plants in a single growing season
Verb
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- dress the plants in the garden
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- the herd was grazing
- let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
- yield crops
- This land crops well
- prepare for crops
- Work the soil
- cultivate the land
- cut short
- She wanted her hair cropped short