meaning of crop
1. The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.
3. 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.
4. Grain or other product of the field while standing.
5. Anything cut off or gathered.
6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convicts crop.
7. A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.
8. Tin ore prepared for smelting.
9. Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
10. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
11. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
12. Fig. : To cut off, as if in harvest.
13. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.
14. To yield harvest.
15. a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
Related Words
crop | crop failure | crop out | crop up | crop-dusting | crop-ear | crop-eared | crop-tailed | crope | cropful | cropped | cropper | cropping | cropsick |
