Crop - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
- a collection of people or things appearing together
- a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food (syn: craw)
verb
- yield crops
- feed as in a meadow or pasture (syn: browse, graze, pasture, range)
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of (syn: clip, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim)
Extra examples
Tobacco is their main crop.
They sprayed the crops with a pesticide.
The teachers got ready for a new crop of students.
The picture was cropped badly.
We had to crop the image to fit it into the frame.
Her hair was cropped short.
She wore her hair in a crop.
The main crops were oats and barley.
Fruit growers are gathering in a bumper crop (=a very large amount of something produced in a season).
Stella's had her hair closely cropped.
My strawberries crop in June or July.
She wanted her hair cropped short
This land crops well
The drought caused crop failure.
The lack of rain has hurt the corn crop.
Phrasal verbs
Word forms
I/you/we/they: crop
he/she/it: crops
present participle: cropping
past tense: cropped
past participle: cropped
singular: crop
plural: crops
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