crop
- Noun. A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder(,) or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- Noun. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
- Noun. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- Noun. The lashing end of a whip.
- Noun. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
- Noun. A rocky outcrop.
- Noun. The act of cropping.
- Noun. A short haircut.
- Noun. (anatomy) 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.
- Noun. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
- Noun. (archaic, or) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- Verb. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- Verb. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
- Verb. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
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