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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

crop (plural crops)

  1. A plant, especially a cereal, grown for food.
  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: The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle’ (Norton 2005 p.221)
  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

to 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 photography or image in order to frame the subject better.

Derived terms

Translations

remove top part
  • Bulgarian: кастря bg(bg)
  • Russian: обрезать (obrezát’, branches), срезать (srezát’, flowers)
to cut (hair/tail/ears) short
  • Bulgarian: стрижа bg(bg)
  • Dutch: brosknippen
  • Finnish: leikata fi(fi), typistää fi(fi)
  • Romanian: tunde ro(ro)
  • Russian: (коротко) подстригать ((kórotko) podstrigát’, hair); обрезать (obrezát’, ears), купировать (kupírovat’, ears)
  • Spanish: rapar es(es)
remove outer parts of (a photograph or image)
  • French: découper fr(fr)
  • Russian: обрезать (obrezát’)
  • Spanish: recortar es(es)

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