crop

English

/kɹɒp/, /kɹɑp/

noun
Definitions
  • (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
  • The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
  • A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
  • A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease
  • The lashing end of a whip
  • An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
  • A rocky outcrop.
  • The act of cropping.
  • A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
  • A short haircut.
  • (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.
  • (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
  • (archaic) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
  • (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
  • (mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
  • An entire oxhide.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English crop inherited from Old English crop inherited from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (body, crop, lump, round mass, mass, heap, collection, bunch, trunk) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (bend, crawl, crumple, curve, arch, warp, crook, crouch).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*grewb-

Gloss

bend, crawl, crumple, curve, arch, warp, crook, crouch

Concept
Semantic Field

Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

Emoji

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