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crop
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crop
Noun
  • A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose. agriculture
  • The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
  • A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
  • The lashing end of a whip
  • An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
  • A rocky outcrop.
  • The act of cropping.
  • A short haircut.
  • A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion, or for regurgitation; a craw. anatomy
  • The foliate part of a finial. architecture
  • The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree. archaic or dialect
  • Tin ore prepared for smelting. mining
  • Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. mining
Verb
  • To remove the top end of something, especially a plant. transitive
  • To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short. transitive
  • To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better. transitive
  • To yield harvest. intransitive
  • To cause to bear a crop. transitive