crop

CEFRB1

/kɹɒp/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Plants grown by farmers for food or other use.

  2. 02

    verb

    To cut something shorter, especially plants, hair, or a picture.

Examples

  • Sugar is an important crop on the island.

  • We will crop the field with cotton this year.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

  2. The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.

  3. A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

More examples

In context

  • The rice crop is already in.

  • It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!

  • The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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 (“body”). Related to crap. Doublet of group and croup.