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crops

/kɹɒps/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
  2. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
  3. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
  4. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease
  5. The lashing end of a whip
  6. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
  7. To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
  8. To mow, reap or gather.
  9. To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
  10. To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
  11. To yield harvest.
  12. To cause to bear a crop.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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