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crop

  [krop] noun, verb, cropped or (Archaic) cropt; crop⋅ping.
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–noun
1. the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop.
2. the yield of such produce for a particular season.
3. the yield of some other product in a season: the crop of diamonds.
4. a supply produced.
5. a collection or group of persons or things appearing or occurring together: this year's crop of students.
6. the stock or handle of a whip.
7. Also called riding crop. a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash.
8. Also called craw. Zoology.
a. 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 croup 2

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

v.   tr.
    1. To cut or bite off the tops or ends of: crop a hedge; sheep cropping grass.
    2. To cut (hair, for example) very short.
    3. To clip (an animal's ears, for example).
    4. To trim (a photograph or picture, for example).
    5. To harvest: crop salmon.
    6. To cause to grow or yield a crop.
    1. To harvest: crop salmon.
    2. To cause to grow or yield a crop.
v.   intr.
  1. To feed on growing grasses and herbage.
  2. To plant, grow, or yield a crop.
Phrasal Verb(s):
crop upTo 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.]
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Crop

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

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

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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Language Translation for : crop
Spanish: cultivo; cosecha,
German: die Ernte, die Feldfrucht,
Japanese: 作物
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crop 
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: crop
Pronunciation: 'kräp
Function: noun
: a pouched enlargement of the gullet of many birds that serves as a receptacle for food and forits preliminary maceration
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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crop

In addition to the idioms beginning with crop, also see cream of the crop.

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