crop (krɒp
)
Definitions
noun
- the produce of cultivated plants, esp cereals, vegetables, and fruit
- the amount of such produce in any particular season
- the yield of some other farm produce ⇒
the lamb crop
- a group of products, thoughts, people, etc, appearing at one time or in one season ⇒
a crop of new publications
- the stock of a thonged whip
- short for riding crop
- a pouchlike expanded part of the oesophagus of birds, in which food is stored or partially digested before passing on to the gizzard
- a similar structure in insects, earthworms, and other invertebrates
- the entire tanned hide of an animal
- a short cropped hairstyle See also Eton crop
- a notch in or a piece cut out of the ear of an animal
- the act of cropping
verb
Word forms: crops, cropping, cropped
(mainly tr) - to cut (hair, grass, etc) very short
- to cut and collect (mature produce) from the land or plant on which it has been grown
- to clip part of (the ear or ears) of (an animal), esp as a means of identification
- (also intr) to cause (land) to bear or (of land) to bear or yield a crop ⇒
the land cropped well
- (of herbivorous animals) to graze on (grass or similar vegetation)
- photography to cut off or mask unwanted edges or areas of (a negative or print)
Word Origin
Old English cropp; related to Old Norse kroppr rump, body, Old High German kropf goitre, Norwegian kröypa to bendTranslations
- British English:
crop
Crops are plants such as wheat and potatoes that are grown in large quantities for food.Farmers here still plant their crops by hand.krɒp NOUN Farmers here still plant their crops by hand.
- Spanish:
cosecha
nf
- French:
cultures
nf_pl
- German: Feldfrucht nf Feldfrüchte
- Chinese: 农作物 n
- Arabic: مَحْصُول n
- Portuguese: colheita nf
- Russian: урожай nm
- Croatian: usjev nm
- Czech: plodina nf
- Danish: afgrøde nutr
- Dutch: oogst nm
- Finnish: vilja n
- Greek: συγκομιδή nf
- Italian: raccolto nm
- Japanese: 農作物 n
- Korean: 농작물 n
- Norwegian: avling nm
- Polish: uprawa nf
- Brazilian Portuguese: colheita nf
- European Spanish:
cosecha
nf
- Swedish: skörd nutr
- Thai: ผลผลิต n
- Turkish: ürün n
- Vietnamese: vụ mùa n
Usage examples
There was only a thin cover of earth there, he saw, sustaining a meager crop of grass.
, THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW (2001)And similar strategies should be applicable to any crop grown in rows, such as maize and soya, suggesting global usefulness.
New Scientist (2003)The predicted rebound in Canadian grain production comes amid projections of a decline in the global wheat crop.
Globe and Mail (2003)'We also have an excellent crop of youngsters coming through.
Glasgow Herald (2001)The renewed spectre of mass starvation (the potato crop had partially failed two years running) was only just receding.
, FENIAN FIRE: The British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria (2002)