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/kɹɒp/ · noun
(agriculture) 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..
The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?
It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!
The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.
The university had an exceptional crop of graduates in 1892, including three who went on to win Nobel Prizes.
And even if Anna Wintour wanted to invite a fresh crop of internet talent, who would she choose? Can you name anyone in the past year who has ascended in a major way?
The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
This indicates to the engraver that the subject may be cropped to yield the size desired, but it is advisable that the position for the crop also be determined and marked, else some essential feature of the copy may be cut off by arbitrary cropping to get the required size.
She went from a ponytail to a crop.
Use crop when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Crop means (agriculture) 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..
Common synonyms include harvest, yield, hunting crop, riding crop.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?
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