crops

Noun

crop (plural crops)

1. 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?
2. 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

3. (figuratively) A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
   • The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.
4. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
   • The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
5. The lashing end of a whip.
6. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.

   Synonyms:

   hunting crop, riding crop, whip, bat

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