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Crop Definition

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English

Etymology

Old English cropp (“head or top of a sprout or herb”).

Pronunciation

Noun

crop (plural crops)

  1. A plant, especially a cereal, grown 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.
    a crop of ideas
  4. The lashing end of a whip
  5. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
  6. A rocky outcrop.
  7. The act of cropping.
  8. A short haircut.
  9. (anatomy) 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.
    • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", 2005 Norton edition, page 221:
      The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.
  10. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
  11. (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.

Synonyms

Related terms

  • crop duster
  • crop dusting
  • cropper
  • hunting crop

Verb

crop (third-person singular simple present crops, present participle cropping, simple past and past participle cropped)

  1. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
  2. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
  3. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.

Derived terms

Translations

remove top part
  • Bulgarian: кастря (bg)
  • Portuguese: podar (pt)
  • Romanian: recolta (ro), culege (ro), cultiva (ro)
  • Russian: обрезать (obrezát’, branches), срезать (srezát’, flowers)
to cut (hair/tail/ears) short
  • Russian: (коротко) подстригать ((kórotko) podstrigát’, hair); обрезать (obrezát’, ears), купировать (kupírovat’, ears)
  • Serbo-Croatian: potkratiti (sh), skratiti (sh)
  • Spanish: rapar (es)
remove outer parts of (a photograph or image)
  • German: ausschneiden (de)
  • Romanian: decupa (ro), tăia (ro)
  • Russian: обрезать (obrezát’)
  • Spanish: recortar (es)

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A crop is a non-animal species or variety that is grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, fuel or for any other economic purpose. Major world crops include sugarcane, pumpkin, maize (corn), wheat, rice, cassava, soybeans, hay, potatoes and cotton. While the term "crop" most commonly refers to plants, it can also include species from other biological kingdoms. For example, mushrooms like shiitake, which are in the fungi kingdom, can be referred to as crops. In addition, certain species of algae are also cultivated, although it is also harvested from the wild. In contrast, animal species that are raised by humans are called livestock, except those that are kept as pets. Microbial species, such as bacteria or viruses, are referred to as cultures. Microbes are not typically grown for food, but are rather used to alter food. For example, bacteria are used to ferment milk to produce yogurt.
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