crop

Speech parts

1. crop - Noun

2. crop - Verb

Meaning

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.

That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.

Grain or other product of the field while standing.

Anything cut off or gathered.

Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.

A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.

Tin ore prepared for smelting.

Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.

To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.

Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.

To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.

To yield harvest.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

harvest lop work range produce dress prune output yield trim clip cultivate pasture graze clipping
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Antonyms

continue expand extend dust seed garden
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Hypernyms

set give bear cut hold plant

Hyponyms

apple pollard orange corn top date

Phrases with the word

cream of the crop pick of the crop crop-dust row crop crop raising crop up in natural manner

Derivatives

cropped cropping

Anagrams

corp porc COPR CPOR proc RCPO

Examples

the herd was grazing Source: Internet

dress the plants in the garden Source: Internet

the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores Source: Internet

the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas Source: Internet

She wanted her hair cropped short Source: Internet

This land crops well Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

crooning crooningly croony crop capacity crop circle crop collection