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Meaning of crop

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crop

Pronunciation:/kɹɒp//kɹɑp/

noun

Definitions

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

    Example: the farmer had lots of crops to sell at the market

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

    Example: it was a good crop of lambs that year

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

    Example: a crop of ideas

  4. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease

    Example: Like in chicken pox.

crop

Pronunciation:/kɹɒp//kɹɑp/

verb

Definitions

  1. To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

  2. To mow, reap or gather.

  3. To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.

  4. To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.