crop
pronunciation
How to pronounce crop in British English:
UK [krɒp]
How to pronounce crop in American English:
US [krɑːp]
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- Noun:
- the yield from plants in a single growing season
- a collection of people or things appearing together
- the output of something in a season
- the stock or handle of a whip
- a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
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- Verb:
- cut short
- prepare for crops
- yield crops
- let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
Word Origin
- crop
- crop: [OE] Old English cropp meant ‘bird’s craw’ and ‘rounded head of a plant’, and it was presumably the latter that gave rise to the word’s most familiar modern sense, ‘cultivated plant produce’, at some time in the 13th century. Its relatives in other Germanic languages, including German kropf and Dutch krop, are used for ‘bird’s craw’ but also for various bodily swellings in the throat and elsewhere, indicating the word’s underlying meaning is ‘round mass, lump’.Its Germanic ancestor, *kruppō, was borrowed into Vulgar Latin as *cruppa, which made its way via Old French into English as croup ‘horse’s (round) rump’ [13], and as the derivative crupper [13]. Croupier [18] is based on French croupe, having originally meant ‘person who rides on the rump, behind the saddle’. The Germanic base *krup- ‘round mass, lump’ is also the ancestor of English group.=> croup, croupier, crupper, group
- crop (n.)
- Old English cropp "bird's craw," also "head or top of a sprout or herb." The common notion is "protuberance." Cognate with Old High German kropf, Old Norse kroppr. Meaning "harvest product" is c. 1300, probably through the verbal meaning "cut off the top of a plant" (c. 1200).
- crop (v.)
- "cut off the top of a plant," c. 1200, from crop (n.). The general meaning of "to cut off" is mid-15c. Related: Cropped; cropping. Women's fashion crop top is attested from 1984.
Example
- 1. The crop is now coming to berau .
- 2. China typically buys a fifth of the u.s. crop .
- 3. These seemingly simple watershed measures helped boost crop yields dramatically .
- 4. Floods in pakistan destroyed much of that country 's crop .
- 5. Natural disasters led to crop failures and hundreds of thousands are believed to have died .