crop
Other forms: crops; cropped; cropping
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. A different kind of crop is the short whip that some riders use on horses — and when you crop something, you cut it short. You might decide to crop your hair at the beginning of the summer each year. The noun came first, originally defined as "the top of a sprout or herb."
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a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
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cash crop
a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)
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catch crop
a crop that grows quickly (e.g. lettuce) and can be planted between two regular crops grown in successive seasons or between two rows of crops in the same season
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cover crop
crop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure
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field crop
a crop (other than fruits or vegetables) that is grown for agricultural purposes
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root crop
crop grown for its enlarged roots: e.g. beets; potatoes; turnips
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field corn
corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain
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flora, plant, plant life
(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
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the yield from plants in a single growing season
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the output of something in a season“the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores”
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end product, output
final product; the things produced
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end product, output
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a collection of people or things appearing together“the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas”
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accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
several things grouped together or considered as a whole
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accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
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yield crops
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prepare for crops
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let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
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feed as in a meadow or pasture
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cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
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shear
cut with shears
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poll, pollard
convert into a pollard
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pinch, top
cut the top off
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disbud
thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers
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tail
remove the stalk of fruits or berries
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thin out
make sparse
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a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
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synonyms:
craw
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breadbasket, stomach, tum, tummy
an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion
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breadbasket, stomach, tum, tummy
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the stock or handle of a whip
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cut short“She wanted her hair cropped short”
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cut
shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
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cut
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