crop
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/kɹɒp/
English
Definitions
noun
- A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.“the farmer had lots of crops to sell at the market”
- The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.“it was a good crop of lambs that year”
- A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.“a crop of ideas”
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease“Like in chicken pox.”
verb
- To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- To mow, reap or gather.
- To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
- To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
Related words
Synonyms
crawharvestyieldbathunting cropriding cropwhipcultivatepastureprunerangesnipdresslopgrazecliptrimcut back