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Crop   /krɑp/   Listen
Crop

noun
1.
The yield from plants in a single growing season.  Synonym: harvest.
2.
A cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale.
3.
A collection of people or things appearing together.
4.
The output of something in a season.
5.
The stock or handle of a whip.
6.
A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food.  Synonym: craw.
verb
(past & past part. cropped; pres. part. cropping)
1.
Cut short.
2.
Prepare for crops.  Synonyms: cultivate, work.  "Cultivate the land"
3.
Yield crops.
4.
Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow.  Synonyms: graze, pasture.
5.
Feed as in a meadow or pasture.  Synonyms: browse, graze, pasture, range.
6.
Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.  Synonyms: clip, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim.



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"Crop" Quotes from Famous Books



... 193 he declares: "All food prices in England have increased on the average 80% in price, they are for example considerably higher in England than in Germany. A world wide crop failure in Canada and Argentine made the importation of food ...
— Germany, The Next Republic? • Carl W. Ackerman
... the merchant said, "you have indeed transformed him. He is not a bad-looking varlet, now that he has got rid of that tangled crop of hair." ...
— Saint Bartholomew's Eve - A Tale of the Huguenot WarS • G. A. Henty
... coconuts are the sole cash crop. Copra and fresh coconuts are the major export earners. Small local gardens and fishing contribute to the food supply, but additional food and most other necessities must be imported ...
— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... or fifteen. Vegetation also existed here to a certain extent. Not far from the shore, I noticed, in a little ravine, a group of eight acicular-leaved trees. On this plain there were also some wild shrubs bearing capers, and a description of tall shrub, not unlike our bramble, bearing a plentiful crop of red berries, very juicy and sweet. We all ate largely of them; and I was the more surprised at finding these plants here, as I had found it uniformly stated that animal and vegetable life was wholly extinct on the shores of ...
— A Visit to the Holy Land • Ida Pfeiffer
... and still have very wrong theories about him; just as a farmer may raise a good crop without understanding much about theories of sunshine or of soil. But the man who does understand about them will be more likely to raise a good crop, because he goes about it intelligently; while the other simply blunders into it. So, if we have right thoughts ...
— Our Unitarian Gospel • Minot Savage


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