crop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krŏp
ipa: /kɹɒp/
enpr: kräp
ipa: /kɹɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: crops
Etymology: From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English crop, cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Icelandic kroppur (“a hunch on the body”). Related to crap, doublet of group and croup.
Senses: examples: text: The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
examples: text: It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!
synonyms: harvest
yield
glosses: The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
examples: text: The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.
text: The university had an exceptional crop of graduates in 1892, including three who went on to win Nobel Prizes.
text: And even if Anna Wintour wanted to invite a fresh crop of internet talent, who would she choose? Can you name anyone in the past year who has ascended in a major way?
ref: 2024 June 26, Stephanie McNeal, “Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To”, in Glamour:
glosses: A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
examples: text: The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
glosses: A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
glosses: The lashing end of a whip.
synonyms: hunting crop
riding crop
whip
bat
glosses: An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
glosses: A rocky outcrop.
glosses: The act of cropping.
examples: text: This indicates to the engraver that the subject may be cropped to yield the size desired, but it is advisable that the position for the crop also be determined and marked, else some essential feature of the copy may be cut off by arbitrary cropping to get the required size.
ref: 1924, Harry Appleton Groesbeck Jr., “Preparation of Copy”, in The Process and Practice of Photo-engraving, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, Indicating Sizes, page 234:
glosses: A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
examples: text: She went from a ponytail to a crop.
text: Eton crop
text: From an inner pocket he produces a costly Ramillies Wig, shakes it out in a brisk Cloud of scented Litharge, and claps it on, with a minimum of fuss, over his ascetic’s Crop.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 227:
glosses: A short haircut.
examples: text: A little bird sat on the edge of her nest;
Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;
That day she had done her very best,
And had filled every one of their little crops.
ref: 1871, George MacDonald, “The Early Bird”, in At the Back of the North Wind:
text: The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.
ref: 1892 [January], A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. VII.—The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume III (January to June), number [13], London: George Newnes, Limited, […], page 84, column 2:
text: As the wildebeest shrinks, the circle of sated birds lounging in the short grass expands. With bulging crops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut.
ref: 2015 December, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2015:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: craw
coordinate_terms: gizzard
glosses: A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
topics: architecture
glosses: The foliate part of a finial.
glosses: The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Tin ore prepared for smelting.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
glosses: An entire oxhide.
examples: text: Cops, come and try to snatch my crops / These pigs wanna blow my house down
ref: 1993, “Insane in the Brain”, in Black Sunday, performed by Cypress Hill:
glosses: Marijuana.
Hyponyms: alley crop
bumper crop
cash crop
catch crop
county crop
cover crop
fallow crop
food crop
green crop
money crop
row crop
sharecrop
smother crop
specialty crop
standing crop
stonecrop
sunset crop
trap crop
truck crop
white crop
Derived terms: aftercrop
alley crop
anticrop
bumper crop
cash crop
catch crop
cover crop
cream of the crop
cream the crop
cropbound
crop circle
crop-dust
cropduster
crop-dusting
crop dusting
crop-ear
cropful
cropfull
cropland
croplands
cropless
croplike
cropmark
crop mark
crop milk
cropper
croppie
croppy
cropraising
crop rotation
cropsick
crop top
Eton crop
fallow crop
food crop
fruitcrop
greencrop
green crop
hunting-crop
hunting crop
intercrop
killcrop
maincrop
money crop
monocrop
neck and crop
noncrop
Norfolk crop rotation
oilcrop
outcrop
pick of the crop
profit crop
riding crop
sharecrop
sharecropper
single-crop
smother crop
specialty crop
standing crop
stonecrop
subsistence crop
sunset crop
trap crop
truck crop
white crop