crop
/krɑp/
noun
- A plant grown by farmers for food, fuel, or other products.
- Wheat is the main crop grown in this region.
- Farmers rotate their crops to keep the soil healthy.
- The heavy rain damaged the corn crop this year.
- The total amount of a plant product that is harvested in a season.
- They had a bumper crop of tomatoes from their garden.
- The grape crop produced excellent wine.
- This year's apple crop was smaller than usual.
- A group or collection of people or things that appear at the same time.
- The latest crop of movies includes several action films.
- Each spring brings a fresh crop of interns to the company.
- A new crop of students arrived at the school in September.
- A short whip used by horseback riders.
- The rider carried a crop to guide the horse.
- She hung her riding crop on the stable wall.
- He tapped the horse's side gently with his crop.
verb
- To cut off the top or end part of something, especially to make it shorter or neater.
- The gardener cropped the hedge into a neat shape.
- He cropped his hair short for the summer.
- She cropped the photo to remove the background.
- To cut or bite off the top of plants or grass.
- Deer cropped the young shoots from the garden.
- The goats cropped the weeds down to the ground.
- The sheep cropped the grass in the field.