English Dictionary

crop

/kɹɒp/

noun

(agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

The farmers harvested a bountiful crop this year.

意味（1）

(agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

The farmer had a nice crop of corn.

意味（2）

The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.

It was a good crop of oats that year.

意味（3）

A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.

The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.

意味（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.

意味（5）

The lashing end of a whip.

意味（6）

An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.

意味（7）

A rocky outcrop.

意味（8）

The act of cropping.

意味（9）

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.

意味（10）

A short haircut.

She went from a ponytail to a crop.

意味（11）

(anatomy) 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.

A little bird sat on the edge of her nest;

Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;

Day-long she had worked almost without rest,

A little bird sat on the edge of her nest; Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops; Day-long she had worked almost without rest, And had filled every one of their gibbous crops;

意味（12）

(architecture) The foliate part of a finial.

意味（13）

(archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.

意味（14）

(mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.

意味（15）

(mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

意味（16）

An entire oxhide.