crop

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the output of something in a season

   the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores

2. 2
   noun

   a collection of people or things appearing together

   the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas

3. 3
   verb

   to cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

   I cropped the trees.

4. 4
   verb

   to cut short

   I wanted my hair cropped short.

5. 5
   verb

   to yield crops

   This land crops well

6. 6
   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.

   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?

7. 7
   noun

   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!

8. 8
   noun

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

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

Etymology

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”). 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 (…