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crop- (noun)
- A plant, especially a cereal, grown for food.
- The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
- A group, cluster or collection of things occuring at the same time.
- a crop of idea
- The lashing end of a whip
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
- A rocky outcrop.
- The act of cropping.
- A short haircut.
- The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- 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.
- 1892: The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle’ (Norton 2005 p.221)
- the foliate part of a finial.
- (verb)
- To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
- To remove the outer parts of a photography or image in order to frame the subject better.