- crop
- [[t]krɒ̱p[/t]]
♦♦♦crops, cropping, cropped1) N-COUNT Crops are plants such as wheat and potatoes that are grown in large quantities for food.→ See also cash crop
Rice farmers here still plant and harvest their crops by hand...
The main crop is wheat and this is grown even on the very steep slopes.
2) N-COUNT: usu with supp The plants or fruits that are collected at harvest time are referred to as a crop.Each year it produces a fine crop of fruit...
The US government says that this year's corn crop should be about 8 percent more than last year...
In the Middle Ages, years of crop failure were always followed by terrible disease.
Syn:3) N-SING: N of n You can refer to a group of people or things that have appeared together as a crop of people or things. [INFORMAL]The present crop of books and documentaries about Marilyn Monroe exploit the thirtieth anniversary of her death...
Next year's crop of undergraduates opting to take physics represents just 2 per cent of all undergraduates.
Syn:4) VERB When a plant crops, it produces fruits or parts which people want.Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to crop poorly.
5) VERB When you crop something that you have planted, you collect the fruits or parts that you want from it.[V n] I started cropping my beans in July.
6) VERB When an animal such as a cow or horse crops leaves or plants, it eats them.[V n] I let the horse drop his head to crop the spring grass.
7) VERB To crop someone's hair means to cut it short.[V n] She cropped her hair and dyed it blonde.
Derived words:cropped ADJShe had cropped grey hair.
8) N-COUNT: usu sing A crop is a short hairstyle.She had her long hair cut into a boyish crop.
9) VERB If you crop a photograph, you cut part of it off, in order to get rid of part of the picture or to be able to frame it.[V n] I decided to crop the picture just above the water line...
Phrasal Verbs:- crop up
English dictionary. 2008.
