crop

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A plant that farmers grow in large amounts for food or other use.

   Rice is the main crop in many parts of Asia.

2. 2
   noun

   The amount of a plant that is gathered in one season.

   The farmers had a good crop of wheat this year.

3. 3
   verb

   To cut something, especially hair, very short.

   He had his hair cropped close to his head.

4. 4
   noun

   A group of people or things appearing at the same time.

   This year's crop of new students is very talented.

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Simplified etymology

Crop is an Old English word that by about 700 meant a flower head or ear of corn. That sense developed in Middle English into the modern meaning “a cultivated plant grown on a large scale,” while the idea of a top also produced uses such as cutting hair short and biting the tops from plants.

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 (…

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