crop

UK/kɹɒp/

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crop noun: 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.

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Noun

crop (plural crops)

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?
The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
- It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!
Synonyms:

harvest, yield
(figuratively) A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- 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.
A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
- The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
The lashing end of a whip.
An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.

Synonyms:

hunting crop, riding crop, whip, bat
A rocky outcrop.
The act of cropping.
A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- 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.1924, Harry Appleton Groesbeck Jr., “Preparation of Copy”, in The Process and Practice of Photo-engraving, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, Indicating Sizes, page 234
A short haircut.
- She went from a ponytail to a crop.
- Eton crop
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 little bird sat on the edge of her nest;
  Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;
  That day she had done her very best,
  And had filled every one of their little crops.1871, George MacDonald, “The Early Bird”, in At the Back of the North Wind
- The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop.1892 [January], A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. VII.—The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume III...
Synonyms:

craw
The foliate part of a finial.

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(archaic, dialectal) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
Tin ore prepared for smelting.
An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
An entire oxhide.
(in plural, slang) Marijuana.
- Cops, come and try to snatch my crops / These pigs wanna blow my house down1993, “Insane in the Brain”, in Black Sunday, performed by Cypress Hill

Verb

crop (third-person singular simple present crops, present participle cropping, simple past and past participle cropped)

(transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 17:22
(transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
(transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
- And the knave who refuses to drink till he fall, / Why the hangman shall crop him — ears, love-locks, and all.1890, George John Whyte-Melville, Holmby House: A Tale of Old Northamptonshire, page 92
(transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- Reduce to six inches wide and crop to eight inches high.1924, Harry Appleton Groesbeck Jr., “Preparation of Copy”, in The Process and Practice of Photo-engraving, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, Indicating Sizes, page 234
- You'll see that when you enlarge a subject to many times its normal size, and then crop the photo so there is nothing in proportion to be recognized, all resemblance to the original can be hidden.1944 July, “WHAT ARE: Name These Enlarged Pictures”, in Popular Science, volume 145, number 1, →ISSN, page 168
(intransitive) To yield harvest.
(transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
- to crop a field
(transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
- She cropped the horse into a comfortable canter and enjoyed the familiar rhythm and bounce of the horse's stride.2013, Mary Hart Perry, Seducing the Princess

crop meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

crop in Hindi

natural production for a specific year: फ़सल fasal

crop in Tamil

பயிர், தீனிப் பை, பயிரிடு, தேவையானதை வெட்டி எடு, நறுக்கு

crop in Urdu

natural production for a specific year: فصل fasal

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crop in Bengali: ফসল, শস্য, খন্দ, খরিফ
crop in Telugu: పంట paṇṭa
crop in Malayalam: വിള viḷa, വിളവെടുപ്പ് viḷaveṭuppŭ
crop in Kannada: ಎರೆಚೀಲ erecīla
crop in Punjabi: ਫ਼ਸਲ fasal, ਖੇਤੀ khetī
crop in Gujarati: પાક pāk
crop in Odia: ଛାଟିବା chāṭibā, କାଟିବା kāṭibā
crop in Sanskrit: वप् vap
crop in Assamese: শস্য xoisso, শইচ xois, ফচল phosol
crop in Nepali: फसल
crop in Tagalog: ani, balun-balunan
crop in Arabic: مَحْصُول maḥṣūl, حَوْصَلة ḥawṣala
crop in Indonesian: tembolok
crop in Persian: محصول mahsul
crop in Thai: พืชไร่ pʉ̂ʉt-râi, กระเพาะพัก grà-pɔ́-pák
crop in Vietnamese: diều

Examples of crop in a sentence

And even if Anna Wintour wanted to invite a fresh crop of internet talent, who would she choose?2024 June 26, Stephanie McNeal, “Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To”, in Glamour:
From an inner pocket he produces a costly Ramillies Wig, shakes it out in a brisk Cloud of scented Litharge, and claps it on, with a minimum of fuss, over his ascetic’s Crop.1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 227:
With bulging crops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut.2015 December, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic, archived from the...
Crop the photo for emphasis and composition.1964, Proctor P. Taylor Jr., “Photographs”, in Preparing Contractor Reports for NASA: Technical Illustrating (NASA Special Publications...

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Forms of crop

Noun
plural	crops
Verb
third-person singular present	crops
present participle	cropping
past participle	cropped
past	cropped

Past tense of crop: cropped

Plural of crop: crops

Origin of crop

From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Doublet of group. Cognates Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Faroese and Icelandic kroppur (“body”). Related to crap. Doublet of group and croup.

From Middle English croppen (“to cut, pluck and eat”), from Old English *croppian. Cognate with Scots crap (“to crop”), Dutch kroppen (“to cram, digest”), Low German kröppen (“to cut, crop, stuff the craw”), German kröpfen (“to crop”), Icelandic kroppa (“to cut, crop, pick”). Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1.

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Questions about crop

What does crop mean?: Crop means 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.
What is crop in Hindi?: Crop in Hindi is फ़सल (fasal). See Crop meaning in Hindi.
How do you use crop in a sentence?: And even if Anna Wintour wanted to invite a fresh crop of internet talent, who would she choose?
What part of speech is crop?: Crop can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce crop?: Crop is pronounced /kɹɒp/ (UK).
What is the plural of crop?: The plural of crop is crops.

Words near crop in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: crop (page history and authors); crop (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); गाभा (Marathi) (page history and authors); crop (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਖੇਤੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); પાક (Gujarati) (page history and authors); କାଟିବା (Odia) (page history and authors); वप् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); crop (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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