crop
English meaning: Crop
Definition
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”
Another example: “You can crop the photo to remove the cluttered background.”
Usage — When, Where & How
Neutral and everyday; cultivated plants harvested for food or profit ('grow crops', 'failed crop'), and figuratively a batch ('a new crop of students'). As a verb, to cut short ('crop a photo', 'crop hair'). Common in farming, photography and casual speech.
Etymology & Origin
English — Origin & History
From Old English 'cropp' (the top or head of a plant, a bird's craw), of Germanic origin; the farming sense developed in the Middle Ages.
Related Words
- dusting
- cassava
- maize
- pests
- yields
- sorghum
- sired
- sugarcane
- peanuts
- potatoes
Common Collocations
- cash crop
- failed crop
- crop yield
- grow crops
- crop rotation
Word Forms
crop (n); crops (pl); crop (v); cropped; cropping
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Literary Heritage
“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
/To thine own self be true/
“Be honest with yourself — and as naturally as night follows day, you will be unable to be false to others.”
“I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?”
/I'm nobody! Who are you?/
“I am nobody — and that quiet anonymity is more honest than the noise of public fame.”
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