Crop

Quick meaning: Crop is a noun meaning The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.

Meaning

The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
2. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
3. The lashing end of a whip.
4. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
5. A rocky outcrop.
6. The act of cropping.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

She went from a ponytail to a crop.

The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.

The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.

It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!

Word Forms

• crops
• cropping
• cropped

Synonyms for crop

Depending on context, synonyms include harvest, yield, hunting crop, whip, bat, craw.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include harvest, cultivate, pasture, prune, range, snip.

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