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crop

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noun

the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop.

the yield of such produce for a particular season.

the yield of some other product in a season: the crop of diamonds.

a supply produced.

a collection or group of persons or things appearing or occurring together: this year's crop of students.

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the stock or handle of a whip.

Also called riding crop. a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash.

Also called craw. Zoology.

a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings.

a chamber or pouch in the foregut of arthropods and annelids for holding and partly crushing food.

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.

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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).

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to cause to bear a crop or crops.

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to graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.): The sheep cropped the lawn.

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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,

Geology, Mining. to rise to the surface of the ground: Veins of quartz crop out in the canyon walls.

to become evident or visible; occur: A few cases of smallpox still crop out every now and then.

25.

crop up, to appear, especially suddenly or unexpectedly: A new problem cropped up.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English, Old English: sprout, ear of corn, paunch, crown of a tree; cognate with German Kropf; see croup²

Related forms

crop·less, adjective

non·crop, adjective

un·cropped, adjective

well-cropped, 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 especially 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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Scientists have developed a seed-producing crop that thrives in sandy soils irrigated with salt water.

Neither a break crop of legumes, nor manure was the answer, since both demanded precious acres to produce.

Strange crop circles have again materialized overnight.

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Scientists have developed a seed-producing crop that thrives in sandy soils irrigated with salt water.

Neither a break crop of legumes, nor manure was the answer, since both demanded precious acres to produce.

Strange crop circles have again materialized overnight.

To improve policies on crop use, invest in better science.

Farmers think of them as an entirely different crop than fresh-market tomatoes.

Choose whether to grow your crop in rows or in hills.

Australia's pistachio farmers expected a bumper crop this year.

There are some small districts where the drouth is not so severe, and corn may yield half a crop.

It can be fierce: not for nothing does the word feral so frequently crop up.

Farms can slash their fossil fuel use and still turn a profit, all with the help of more complex crop rotation.

But it appears that, to date, traditional plant breeding boosts crop yields better than genetic modification.

F1 hybrid corn is the greediest of plants, consuming more fertilizer than any other crop.

It was my second planting because the crows ate the first crop before the peas could unfurl their leaves.

Taken together, the increase in crop yield and the use of marginal lands can enable us to produce food and fuels.

When it comes to crop circles, believing is seeing.

Rice is a staple crop for nearly half the world's population.

Using compost in the garden can reduce the need for chemical fertilizers and increase crop yields.

Click ahead to see our crop list, growing guide, and serving suggestions.

Facebook will automatically crop your photo right in the middle, and its robot brain can be unforgiving.

They have also created hundreds of new crop variants using irradiation and mutagenic chemicals.

The age-old practice of turning the soil before planting a new crop is a leading cause of farmland degradation.

On all columbines, cut back old stems for second crop of flowers.

The military credits its new crop of hulking armored vehicles with saving hundreds of soldiers' skins.

They're not picky-they'll spend their time on almost any crop.

When the crop dusting stopped, populations rose each year, slowly at first.

In beds earmarked for vegetables and annual flowers, amend the soil before each new crop is planted.

Forty years ago, advances in fertilizers and pesticides boosted crop yield and fed a growing planet.

While seeds can be spread directly onto the land, saving labor cost and time, this results in far lower crop yields.

Several crop insurance plans insist that farmers sow seeds to be covered.

The irony here is that this year's olives are the bumper crop of crops.

After all, the less pesticide they use, the less it costs them to bring a crop to harvest.

Each year the area under each crop was calculated in terms of its water need.

The problme not matter what crop is grown it also depends on fertilizer to make the crop grow.

In low and intermediate desert, grow as a winter crop in full sun.

It's small enough that you won't feel overwhelmed and big enough to yield a decent crop.

Planting legumes in crop fields in alternate years boosts available nitrogen levels and varies the demand on soil nutrients.

Those famers growing coffee now will have to find another crop to grow.

In mild-winter regions, plant in early spring for a summer crop, in early fall for a winter-into-spring crop.

Handbrake offers settings to crop the black bars, but you shouldn't fiddle with them.

Rotate plantings so that any given crop is planted in a different spot in next year's garden.

Moreover, all the fields underwent the same tillage and crop rotations.

In mild-winter, hot-summer areas, grow only as a winter and early spring crop.

Inside the fence, food safety regulators are learning to grow the crop with little water.

Get our crop list and growing guide, and enjoy homegrown greens all winter more.

It can be cut to the ground each winter, resulting in a single late crop the following season add to my plant list.

Please, if you really can't find this bountiful crop at your local community college, contact me directly.

They use crop cover to minimise erosion and plough manure into the soil to build it up again.

Crop circles first drew attention in the mid-1970s, when they.

America's only commercial tea crop is grown on an island with plants more than a century.

Hundreds of thousands of crop circles will appear on landscapes around the world.

Vermont's apple crop is on the rebound this year, and the growers are looking for more pickers.

The land-grant university fights to keep the signature crop as a vibrant part of the state's economy as well as its culture.

And trees, being large, take time to grow to the point where they can yield a crop.

But the use of chemicals and the loss of crop diversity comes at a price to the environment.

See how to improve your garden soil for healthier plants and a richer crop.

The new crop of tea is of good quality, and is coming in freely.

Hit by floods and droughts, this year's sugar crop was a disaster.

Modern technologies can increase crop yields and reduce agriculture's environmental impact.

Get our crop list and growing guide, and enjoy homegrown greens in fresh salads and stir-fries all winter.

It is of great importance to the whole country and all its interests that a large crop of cotton should be raised next year.

If he has to invest three times as much in his crop and the crop fails, he says, he will be buried in debt.

Large-scale agriculture would become more sustainable if major crop plants lived for years and built deep root systems.

When a crop of sugar cane or rice or fruit becomes available, the rat population will explode.

See how to grow potatoes in dirtless towers for a big crop and easy harvest.

They are struggling to find jobs for their current crop of graduates-but overwhelmed with inquiries from would-be students.

The team found that the ancient crop had decomposed but holes in the planting beds had been sealed by ash.

The first plant genome project--now complete--promises to revolutionize crop science.

Plant a crop of basil for late-summer or fall harvest.

Bees will fly about only in good weather, so if your crop blooms on a rainy day, too bad.

Eventually, such a map could be used to track soil depletion from agriculture, regardless of intended crop usage.

Yet crop yields aren't increasing fast enough, and climate change and.

The farmer smiles to himself, because he knows something about his crop that few people realize.

Avoid the birthday blues this summer by checking out our list of picks and pans for this summer's crop of kids' games.

The bargaining goes back and forth, but the struggle to improve the crop has already been won.

Small, single white flowers are followed by a heavy crop of bright red berries that hold well into fall.

Anvils plummet down from above as you harvest the crop.

The parching threatens a quarter of the country's crop.

Every crop people grow takes nutrients from the soil.

By the time the crop is harvested-five pounds per square.

One late-summer crop of green-skinned, red-fleshed fruit.

Now you need to worry about crop factors and autofocus, too.

Much of last year's bumper crop of tomatoes rotted because government trucks failed to collect them on time.

The world's fourth largest staple crop can only be reproduced from.

For thousands of years, farmers have surveyed their fields and eyed the sky, hoping for good weather and a bumper crop.

Where winters are mild, plant in fall for a winter crop.

Dutton found a new crop of websites that cater to women in her situation.

It is not easy to convince small farmers to devote care and attention to an untried crop which takes so long to provide a return.

The introduction of machinery to farming vastly improved crop yields.

The heavy rains have left an indelible mark on the nation's wheat industry, the world's fourth-largest exporter of that crop.

Corn prices are expected to rise again this year as more of the crop is destined to become fuel.

Farm programs poorly suited for the arid plains accelerated the transformation of even more acres to crop farming.

If you've never grown anything from seed before, arugula is a great first crop.

Attempts to eradicate the crops or promote alternatives have failed: this year's crop broke the record.

Some plants will grow a big crop fast, others will grow slowly.

We can even measure the amount of nutrients that a crop can mine for us.

It works somewhat different than a crop box because it has pre-set size.

Good where standard hazelnuts won–t produce a crop add to my plant list.

The new crop of clean diesels pollute less than gasoline engines and pack a hell of a punch.

Spiders play a beneficial role in nature by eating many insects that are pests and cause crop damage.

They are a means for an insurer to help provide for future claims by policyholders or a farmer to protect against crop losses.

Use netting to keep birds from eating the cherry crop.

Critics of sustainable agriculture claim, among other things, that its methods result in lower crop yields and higher land use.

Main crop comes from winter to late spring, though some fruit ripens all year add to my plant list.

In areas that have irregular precipitation, irrigation improves crop growth and quality.

Corn-or the cellulose in everything from wood chips to crop stalks-are often touted as the basis of the fuel of the future.

Aim to select vegetables that can mature and bear a good crop in the interval between these two dates.

That's because agricultural land on which food crops used to be grown is increasingly being converted for biofuel crop production.

However, the farming costs for corn are about the same as other crops, depending more on farming methods than crop differences.

Try not to leave part of the leaf's stem attached as it can rot, inviting disease to your crop.

It may be used as a rotation crop for wheat, to increase the health of the soil".

During years when demand is high, a farmer might make as much as six times more from opium than he would from another crop.

Let this fresh crop of design-savvy planters, tools, and harvest helpers add some spark to your gardening.

But the new crop of shows has focused attention on the use of science in solving crimes.

And for farmers, the product will offer a new end use for a large domestic crop.

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World English Dictionary

crop (krɒp)

—n
1.	the produce of cultivated plants, esp cereals, vegetables, and fruit
2.	a. the amount of such produce in any particular season
	b. the yield of some other farm produce: the lamb crop
3.	a group of products, thoughts, people, etc, appearing at one time or in one season: a crop of new publications
4.	the stock of a thonged whip
5.	short for riding crop
6.	a. a pouchlike expanded part of the oesophagus of birds, in which food is stored or partially digested before passing on to the gizzard
	b. a similar structure in insects, earthworms, and other invertebrates
7.	the entire tanned hide of an animal
8.	See also Eton crop a short cropped hairstyle
9.	a notch in or a piece cut out of the ear of an animal
10.	the act of cropping

—vb , crops, cropping, cropped
11.	to cut (hair, grass, etc) very short
12.	to cut and collect (mature produce) from the land or plant on which it has been grown
13.	to clip part of (the ear or ears) of (an animal), esp as a means of identification
14.	(also intr) to cause (land) to bear or (of land) to bear or yield a crop: the land cropped well
15.	(of herbivorous animals) to graze on (grass or similar vegetation)
16.	photog to cut off or mask unwanted edges or areas of (a negative or print)

[Old English cropp; related to Old Norse kroppr rump, body, Old High German kropf goitre, Norwegian kröypa to bend]

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Word Origin & History

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" (early 13c.). The general meaning of "to cut off" is early 15c.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

CROP
consolidated rules of practice

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Idioms & Phrases

crop

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