crop | |
1. s. (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose. | |
the farmer had lots of crops to sell at the market | |
2. s. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants. | |
it was a good crop that year | |
3. s. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time. | |
a crop of ideas | |
4. s. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease | |
Like in chicken pox. | |
5. s. The lashing end of a whip | |
6. s. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop. | |
7. s. A rocky outcrop. | |
8. s. The act of cropping. | |
9. s. A short haircut. | |
she kept her hair cropped | |
10. s. (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. | |
11. s. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial. | |
12. s. (archaic, or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree. | |
13. s. (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting. | |
14. s. (mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. | |
15. v. To remove the top end of something, especially a plant. | |
16. v. To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short. | |
17. v. To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better. | |
18. v. (intransitive) To yield harvest. | |
19. v. To cause to bear a crop. | |
to crop a field | |