crop

  1. Noun.  A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder(,) or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
  2. Noun.  The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
  3. Noun.  A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
  4. Noun.  The lashing end of a whip.
  5. Noun.  An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
  6. Noun.  A rocky outcrop.
  7. Noun.  The act of cropping.
  8. Noun.  A short haircut.
  9. 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.
  10. Noun.  (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
  11. Noun.  (archaic, or) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
  12. Verb.  (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
  13. Verb.  (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
  14. Verb.  (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.

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