Sekirov Dictionary

crop

/kɹɒp/

noun17

  1. 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.
  2. [in the plural] (slang) Marijuana.
  3. The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
  4. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
  5. (figurative) A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
  6. A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
  7. A short haircut.
  8. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
  9. The act of cropping.
  10. A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
  11. A rocky outcrop.
  12. An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
  13. The lashing end of a whip.
  14. The foliate part of a finial.
  15. Tin ore prepared for smelting.
  16. An entire oxhide.
  17. (dialect, no longer used) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.

verb7

  1. To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
  2. To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
  3. To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
  4. To yield harvest.
  5. To cause to bear a crop.
  6. To mow, reap or gather.
  7. To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
forms

cropped · cropt · cropping · croppeth · crops · croppest

Phrases with crop

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