crop
English
/kɹɒp/, /kɹɑp/
noun
Definitions
- (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
- A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease
- The lashing end of a whip
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
- A rocky outcrop.
- The act of cropping.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- A short haircut.
- (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.
- (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
- (archaic) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- (mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- An entire oxhide.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English crop inherited from Old English crop inherited from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (body, crop, lump, round mass, mass, heap, collection, bunch, trunk) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (bend, crawl, crumple, curve, arch, warp, crook, crouch).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*grewb-
Gloss
bend, crawl, crumple, curve, arch, warp, crook, crouch
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aftercrop English
- anticrop English
- bound English
- cramp English
- crampbark English
- crampest English
- crampet English
- crampeth English
- crampfish English
- crampish English
- crampy English
- cropable English
- cropbound English
- cropduster English
- cropful English
- cropland English
- croplands English
- cropless English
- croplike English
- cropmark English
- croppable English
- croppest English
- croppeth English
- croppie English
- croppy English
- cropraising English
- cropsick English
- duster English
- green English
- greencrop English
- intercrop English
- kill English
- killcrop English
- land English
- lands English
- main English
- maincrop English
- mark English
- miscrop English
- monocrop English
- noncrop English
- noncropland English
- oil English
- oilcrop English
- outcrop English
- overcrop English
- raising English
- share English
- sharecrop English
- sick English
- stone English
- stonecrop English
- uncramp English
- uncrop English
- kroppa Finnish
- *cruppo Latin
- grupus Latin
- Kropf German
- kröpfen German
- gruppo Italian
- krop Dutch, Flemish
- *ger- Proto-Indo-European
- *grewb- Proto-Indo-European
- *gru(m)bʰ Proto-Indo-European
- *kruftaz Proto-Germanic
- *krupilaz Proto-Germanic
- *kruppaz Proto-Germanic
- himlakropp Swedish
- kropp Swedish
- kroppsdel Swedish
- kroppskamera Swedish
- kroppslig Swedish
- kroppstemperatur Swedish
- kroppsvätska Swedish
- crop Old English
- cropp Old English
- crampe Middle English
- crop Middle English
- kroppr Old Norse
- krop Danish
- kropsbillede Danish
- kropslig Danish
- crope Old French
- kroppur Icelandic
- crop Middle Dutch
- kropf Old High German
- kropf Middle High German
- *krop Old Dutch
- kropper Old Swedish
- oil
- kill
- land
- main
- mark
- sick
- share
- bound
- stone
- lands
- green
- cramp
- crampy
- duster
- croppy
- uncrop
- raising
- cropful
- noncrop
- crampet
- croppie
- miscrop
- oilcrop
- outcrop
- uncramp
- croppeth
- overcrop
- cropless
- killcrop
- croppest
- cropland
- cropsick
- crampest
- maincrop
- cropable
- crampeth
- cropmark
- croplike
- monocrop
- anticrop
- crampish
- sharecrop
- intercrop
- crampfish
- stonecrop
- aftercrop
- cropbound
- greencrop
- croppable
- crampbark
- croplands
- cropduster
- cropraising
- noncropland