crop
noun
[ krɒp ]
• a cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable.
• "the main crops were oats and barley"
• a group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time.
• "the current crop of politicians"
• a hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short.
• "she has her hair cut in a short crop"
• short for riding crop or hunting crop.
Similar:
whip,
lash,
scourge,
cat,
thong,
switch,
birch,
cane,
stick,
riding crop,
hunting crop,
• a pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion.
• "the parent waxbill partially digests food in its crop"
Similar:
craw,
maw,
gullet,
throat,
oesophagus,
pharynx,
the red lane,
throttle,
gorge,
gula,
• the entire tanned hide of an animal.
crop
verb
• cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short.
• "she cropped her long golden hair"
Similar:
cut short,
cut,
clip,
trim,
snip,
shear,
shave,
pare,
prune,
fleece,
lop,
dock,
remove,
detach,
cut off,
hack off,
chop off,
take off,
shorten,
make shorter,
cut shorter,
cut into a bob,
barber,
tonsure,
• (of an animal) bite off and eat the tops of (plants).
• "the horse was gratefully cropping the grass"
• harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area.
• "hay would have been cropped several times through the summer"
Similar:
harvest,
reap,
mow,
gather,
collect,
pick,
pluck,
gather in,
take in,
bring home,
glean,
garner,
cull,
Origin:
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to German Kropf . From Old English to the late 18th century there existed a sense ‘flower head, ear of corn’, giving rise to crop (sense 1 of the noun) and senses referring to the top of something, whence crop (sense 4 of the noun).
