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   Crop

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   noun

   • 1. a cultivated plant that is grown as food, especially a grain, fruit, or vegetable: "the main crops were oats and barley"
   • ▪ an amount of produce harvested at one time: "a heavy crop of fruit" Similar harvestyear's growthyieldproducevintagegatheringreapinggleaninggarneringfruits
   • ▪ an abundance of something, especially a person's hair: "he had a thick crop of wiry hair"
   • ▪ the total number of young farm animals born in a particular year on one farm: "failure to observe sound practice leads to a lamb crop at weaning of around 50–60 percent"
   • 2. a group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time: "the current crop of politicians" Similar batchlotassortmentselectioncollectionsupplyintake
   • 3. a hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short: "she has her hair cut in a short crop"
   • 4. short for riding crop
   • 5. a pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion: "the parent waxbill partially digests food in its crop" Similar crawmawgulletthroatesophaguspharynxinformal, dated:the red lanearchaic:throttlegorgegula
   • ▪ an organ resembling a bird's crop in an insect or earthworm.
   • 6. the entire tanned hide of an animal.

   verb

   • 1. cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short: "she cropped her long golden hair" Similar cut shortcutcliptrimsnipshearshavepareprunefleecelopdockremovedetachcut offhack offchop offtake offshortenmake shortercut shortercut into a bobbarbertonsure
   • ▪ remove part of (a photograph or other image) in order to produce a better picture or to fit a given space: "you can always crop the picture afterwards"
   • 2. (of an animal) bite off and eat the tops of (plants): "the horse was gratefully cropping the grass" Similar graze onbrowse onfeed onnibble (at)eatpastureruminate
   • 3. harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area: "hay would have been cropped several times through the summer" Similar harvestreapmowgathercollectpickpluckgather intake inbring homeliterary:gleangarnercull
   • ▪ sow or plant (land) with plants that will produce food or fodder, especially on a large commercial scale: "the southern areas are cropped in cotton"

   Word Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to German Kropf. From Old English to the late 18th century there existed a sense ‘flower head, ear of corn’, giving rise to crop (sense 1 of the noun) and senses referring to the top of something, whence crop (sense 4 of the noun).

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   What is a crop & why is it important?

   • A crop is a large amount of one kind of fruit or vegetable that's grown on a farm. Your farmer uncle's corn crop might be especially large after a summer with plenty of rain. A major crop in parts of Asia is rice, while the coffee bean crop is important to the economics of several African and South American countries.

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   What does crop mean?

   • The meaning of CROP is a pouched enlargement of the esophagus of many birds that serves as a receptacle for food and for its preliminary maceration; also : an enlargement of the digestive tract of another animal (such as an insect). How to use crop in a sentence.

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   What does it mean when a plant crops?

   • When a plant crops, it produces fruits or parts which people want . Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to crop poorly. [VERB] When you crop something that you have planted, you collect the fruits or parts that you want from it. I started cropping my beans in July. [VERB noun]

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   What is a 'crop of people'?

   • This year's corn crop should be about 8 percent more than last year. In the Middle Ages, years of crop failure were always followed by terrible disease. You can refer to a group of people or things that have appeared together as a crop of people or things. Some of this year's crop of graduates are on a fast-track recruitment scheme.

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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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