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The definition of a crop is agricultural produce, a group of something, a short whip or a pouch on a bird to store undigested food.

(noun)

An example of crop is all the sunflowers a garden produces during a growing season.
An example of crop is the new group of students entering a school.
An example of crop is the whip used in horseback riding.
An example of crop is the enlarged pouch in a bird's gullet where the bird stores undigested food.

Crop is defined as to cut, trim, bite or clip.

(verb)

An example of crop is trimming a 4x6 photo to fit in a 3½x5 frame.

See crop in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a saclike enlargement of a bird's gullet or of a part of the digestive tract of earthworms and some insects, in which food is stored before digestion; craw
any agricultural product, growing or harvested, or collected, as wheat, cotton, fruit, honey, etc.
the yield of any product in one season or place
a group or collection appearing together: a new crop of students
the entire tanned hide of an animal
the handle or butt of a whip
a stick with a handle at one end and a thong or tab at the other, used to direct a horse in horseback riding
Origin: < the v.
the act or result of cropping, esp.
1. hair cut close to the head
2. this style of haircut
3. an earmark on an animal, made by clipping

Origin: ME croppe < OE croppa, a cluster, flower, crop of bird, hence kidney, pebble; akin to Frank *kruppa, Ger kropf, a swelling, crop of bird (basic sense “something swelling out or swollen”) < IE *gr-eu-b-, curving out < base *ger-: see cradle

transitive verb cropped, cropping

to cut off or bite off the tops or ends of: sheep crop grass
to grow or harvest as a crop
to cause crops to grow on or in
to cut (hair, etc.) short
to cut short the ears, hair, etc. of

intransitive verb

to bear a crop or crops
☆ to plant or grow a crop
to feed by cropping grass, etc.; graze

See crop in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group: Wheat is a common crop.
b. The total yield of such produce in a particular season or place: an orchard that produced a huge crop of apples last year.
A group, quantity, or supply appearing at one time: a crop of new ideas.
A short haircut.
An earmark on an animal.
a. A short whip used in horseback riding, with a loop serving as a lash.
b. The stock of a whip.
Zoology
a. A pouchlike enlargement of a bird's gullet in which food is partially digested or stored for regurgitation to nestlings.
b. A similar enlargement in the digestive tract of annelids and insects.

verb cropped cropped, crop·ping, crops

verb, transitive

a. To cut or bite off the tops or ends of: crop a hedge; sheep cropping grass.
b. To cut (hair, for example) very short.
c. To clip (an animal's ears, for example).
d. To trim (a photograph or picture, for example).
a. To harvest: crop salmon.
b. To cause to grow or yield a crop.

verb, intransitive

To feed on growing grasses and herbage.
To plant, grow, or yield a crop.

Phrasal Verb: crop up To appear unexpectedly or occasionally: “one of the many theories that keep cropping up in his story” (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt).

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old English cropp, ear of grain

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