Match the word with the definition crop

: a pouched enlargement of the esophagus of many birds that serves as a receptacle for food and for its preliminary maceration

also

: an enlargement of the digestive tract of another animal (such as an insect)

: the stock or handle of a whip

also

: a riding whip with a short straight stock and a loop

: to cause (land) to bear a crop

also

: to grow as a crop

Noun

Tobacco is their main crop.

They sprayed the crops with a pesticide.

The teachers got ready for a new crop of students.

a new crop of horror movies

Verb

The picture was cropped badly.

We had to crop the image to fit it into the frame.

Her hair was cropped short.

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Etymology

Noun

(senses 1-3) Middle English crop, crope, croppe «crop of a bird, portion of an herb above the root, sprig, bud, crown of a tree, harvest of a plant, tip or top of something,» going back to Old English crop «crop of a bird, sprout, shoot, bunch or cluster (of fruit, seeds), umbel (also croppa, weak noun, only in sense «bunch, cluster»), going back to Germanic *kruppa- «something rounded, bulge,» (whence also Old Saxon kripp «crop of a bird,» Middle Dutch crop «gnarl, goiter, gullet, body, corpse, blister, bud,» Old High German kropf «protuberance, goiter, crop of a bird,» Old Icelandic kroppr «swelling on the body, crop of a bird» [Icelandic & Faroese kroppur «body»]), of expressive origin; (sense 4) derivatives of crop entry 2

Note:
The Old English n-stem croppa is matched by Old High German kropfo «crop of a bird, bulbous onion.» Old Icelandic krov «slaughtered animal with the entrails removed» points to an original paradigm *kruƀan- : *kruƀn-, with the latter resulting in *kruppa- by loss of the nasal, devoicing, and gemination (Kluge’s Law). The early meaning of the etymon and its later semantic bifurcations are difficult to reconstruct with certainty. An original sense «something rounded, bulge, swelling» may have led, on the one hand, to «cavity in a slaughtered animal after the entrails are removed» and hence «body, corpse» (meanings in North Germanic and Middle Dutch), and on the other to «swelling in the throat, crop of a bird, goiter.» The sense «sprout, bud» in West Germanic is a further specification of «swelling.» The later development in English is not paralleled in the other languages. The sense «sprout, sprig» seems to have been generalized to «structures terminating a plant, as fruit, seeds, umbels» and then, on the one hand, to «upper part, tip or end of an object» (such as the stock of a whip) and, on the other hand, to «harvested fruit of a plant, yield of such harvested products in a season.» Compare croup entry 1, group entry 1. See R. Lühr, Expressivität und Lautgesetz im Germanischen, Heidelberg, 1988, p. 235; R. Lühr et al., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen, Band 5 [2014], columns 816-18; G. Kroonen, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic, Brill, 2013, p. 307.

Verb

Middle English croppen «to prune, trim, cut branches from (a bush or tree), derivative of crop, crope, croppe «sprig, bud, crown of a tree, tip or top of something» — more at crop entry 1

Note:
The phrasal verb crop up is dependent on a geological sense of crop, «(of rock strata) to appear at the surface,» a coal miners’ term in the West Midlands in the seventeenth century, which is apparently a development of the noun sense «tip, end» («to show itself at the exposed end»). Compare outcrop entry 1.

First Known Use

Noun

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a

Time Traveler

The first known use of crop was
before the 12th century

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[singular]

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a short whip used in horse riding

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see picture at horse

[count]

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a short and thick quantity of hair on a person’s head

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an area in the throat of a bird where food is stored for a time

[+ object]

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to cut off the upper or outer parts of (something)

[+ object]

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to cut off part of (a picture or photograph)

[+ object]

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to cut (someone’s hair) short

[+ object]

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to bite off and eat the tops of (grass or plants)

[no object]

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to produce or make a crop

Other forms: crops; cropped; cropping

A crop is a large amount of one kind of fruit or vegetable that’s grown on a farm. Your farmer uncle’s corn crop might be especially large after a summer with plenty of rain.

A major crop in parts of Asia is rice, while the coffee bean crop is important to the economics of several African and South American countries. A different kind of crop is the short whip that some riders use on horses — and when you crop something, you cut it short. You might decide to crop your hair at the beginning of the summer each year. The noun came first, originally defined as «the top of a sprout or herb.»

Definitions of crop

1. noun

   a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale

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   cash crop

   a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco)

   catch crop

   a crop that grows quickly (e.g. lettuce) and can be planted between two regular crops grown in successive seasons or between two rows of crops in the same season

   cover crop

   crop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure

   field crop

   a crop (other than fruits or vegetables) that is grown for agricultural purposes

   root crop

   crop grown for its enlarged roots: e.g. beets; potatoes; turnips

   field corn

   corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain

   type of:

   flora, plant, plant life

   (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

2. noun

   the yield from plants in a single growing season

3. noun

   the output of something in a season

   “the latest
   crop of fashions is about to hit the stores”

4. noun

   a collection of people or things appearing together

   “the annual
   crop of students brings a new crop of ideas”

6. synonyms:

   cultivate, work

   knead, work

   make uniform

7. verb

   let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

   synonyms:

   graze, pasture

   browse, graze, pasture, range

   feed as in a meadow or pasture

8. verb

   feed as in a meadow or pasture

   synonyms:

   browse, graze, pasture, range

   range

   let eat

   graze, pasture

   let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

9. verb

   cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

10. noun

    a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

11. noun

    the stock or handle of a whip

12. “She wanted her hair
    cropped short”