a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings.
b.
a chamber or pouch in the foregut of arthropods and annelids for holding and partly crushing food.
9.
the act of cropping.
10.
a mark produced by clipping the ears, as of cattle.
11.
a close-cropped hair style.
12.
a head of hair so cut.
13.
an entire tanned hide of an animal.
14.
Mining. an outcrop of a vein or seam.
–verb (used with object)
15.
to cut off or remove the head or top of (a plant, grass, etc.).
16.
to cut off the ends or a part of: to crop the ears of a dog.
17.
to cut short.
18.
to clip the ears, hair, etc., of.
19.
Photography. to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative).
20.
to cause to bear a crop or crops.
21.
to graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.): The sheep cropped the lawn.
–verb (used without object)
22.
to bear or yield a crop or crops.
23.
to feed by cropping or grazing.
—Verb phrases
24.
crop out,
a.
Geology,Mining. to rise to the surface of the ground: Veins of quartz crop out in the canyon walls.
b.
to become evident or visible; occur: A few cases of smallpox still crop out every now and then.
25.
crop up, to appear, esp. suddenly or unexpectedly: A new problem cropped up.
[Origin: bef. 900; ME, OE: sprout, ear of corn, paunch, crown of a tree; c. G Kropf; see croup2]
—Related forms
cropless, adjective
—Synonyms 1.Crop,harvest,produce,yield refer to the return in food obtained from land at the end of a season of growth. Crop, the term common in agricultural and commercial use, denotes the amount produced at one cutting or for one particular season: the potato crop. Harvest denotes either the time of reaping and gathering, or the gathering, or that which is gathered: the season of harvest; to work in a harvest; a ripe harvest. Produce esp. denotes household vegetables: Produce from the fields and gardens was taken to market. Yield emphasizes what is given by the land in return for expenditure of time and labor: There was a heavy yield of grain this year.
Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group: Wheat is a common crop.
The total yield of such produce in a particular season or place: an orchard that produced a huge crop of apples last year.
A short whip used in horseback riding, with a loop serving as a lash.
The stock of a whip.
A pouchlike enlargement of a bird's gullet in which food is partially digested or stored for regurgitation to nestlings.
A similar enlargement in the digestive tract of annelids and insects.
A group, quantity, or supply appearing at one time: a crop of new ideas.
A short haircut.
An earmark on an animal.
A short whip used in horseback riding, with a loop serving as a lash.
The stock of a whip.
A pouchlike enlargement of a bird's gullet in which food is partially digested or stored for regurgitation to nestlings.
A similar enlargement in the digestive tract of annelids and insects.
Zoology
A pouchlike enlargement of a bird's gullet in which food is partially digested or stored for regurgitation to nestlings.
A similar enlargement in the digestive tract of annelids and insects.
v.
cropped, crop·ping, crops
v.
tr.
To cut or bite off the tops or ends of: crop a hedge; sheep cropping grass.
To cut (hair, for example) very short.
To clip (an animal's ears, for example).
To trim (a photograph or picture, for example).
To harvest: crop salmon.
To cause to grow or yield a crop.
To harvest: crop salmon.
To cause to grow or yield a crop.
v.
intr.
To feed on growing grasses and herbage.
To plant, grow, or yield a crop.
Phrasal Verb(s): crop up
To appear unexpectedly or occasionally: "one of the many theories that keep cropping up in his story"(Christopher Lehmann-Haupt).
[Middle English, from Old English cropp, ear of grain.]
O.E. cropp "bird's craw," also "head or top of a sprout or herb." Meaning of "harvest product" is c.1300, probably through verb meaning "cut off the top of a plant" (c.1213). The general meaning of "to cut off" is c.1420.
Crop\ (kr?p), n. [OE. crop, croppe, craw, top of a plant, harvest, AS. crop, cropp, craw, top, bunch, ear of corn; akin to D. krop craw, G. kropf, Icel. kroppr hump or bunch on the body, body; but cf. also W. cropa, croppa, crop or craw of a bird, Ir. & Gael. sgroban. Cf. Croup, Crupper, Croup.]1. The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw. 2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. [Obs.] "Crop and root." --Chaucer. 3. That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest. Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn, wine, and oil. --Milton. 4. Grain or other product of the field while standing. 5. Anything cut off or gathered. Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee. --Dryden. 6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop. 7. (Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. [Obs.] 8. (Mining.) (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting. (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. --Knight. 9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]
Crop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cropped (kr?pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cropping.]1. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap. I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one. --Ezek. xvii. 22. 2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. Death . . . .crops the growing boys. --Creech. 3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
Crop\, v. i. To yield harvest. To crop out. (a) (Geol.) To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal. (b) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out. To crop up, to sprout; to spring up. "Cares crop up in villas." --Beaconsfield.
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