CROP

Crop

A crop is a volunteered or cultivated plant whose product is harvested by a human at some point of its growth stage. Plants which have not been cultivated but whose product are harvested, are not really classified as crops. The same goes for plants which have been planted, but are never harvested. Flowers are classified as crops because when it has been cultivated, its harvesting also include the aesthetic purpose it serves.

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crop

Noun

  1. A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
  2. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
  3. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
    a crop of ideas
  4. The lashing end of a whip
  5. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
  6. A rocky outcrop.
  7. The act of cropping.
  8. A short haircut.
  9. A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion, or for regurgitation; a craw.
  10. The foliate part of a finial.
  11. The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
  12. Tin ore prepared for smelting.
  13. Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

Verb

  1. To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
  2. To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
  3. To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
  4. To yield harvest.
  5. To cause to bear a crop.
    to crop a field


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