crop

A plant grown in large amounts for food or other useful products.

• Rice is an important crop here.
• The farmers grow several crops on their land.
• Dry weather has damaged the wheat crop.

Common phrases: grow a crop, food crop, cash crop

The amount of plants or their products collected from a farm in one season.

• We had a good crop this year.
• The apple crop was smaller than expected.
• Heavy rain ruined last summer’s crop.

How to use it: crop of something (The trees produced a large crop of pears.)

Similar words: harvest, yield

Common phrases: bumper crop, poor crop, crop of something

A bag inside some birds and other animals that holds food before it reaches the stomach.

• The bird’s crop was full.
• Seeds collect in the crop before reaching the stomach.
• The vet gently examined the pigeon’s crop.

Similar words: craw

Common phrases: bird’s crop, full crop

To remove the outer parts of a picture so only the part you want remains.

• Please crop this photo.
• She cropped the image to remove the empty space.
• Can you crop the picture into a square?

How to use it: crop something to something (I cropped the photo to the required size.)

Similar words: trim

Common phrases: crop a photo, crop an image, crop something tightly

To cut hair or an animal’s ears or tail very short.

• She decided to crop her hair.
• The barber cropped his hair very short.
• Some owners crop their dogs’ ears.

How to use it: crop something short (He cropped his hair short for the summer.)

Similar words: clip, cut short

Common phrases: crop someone’s hair, crop something short, crop a tail

To cut off the top part of something, especially a plant.

• The sheep crop the grass.
• He cropped the tops of the young plants.
• Horses had cropped the shoots close to the ground.

Similar words: trim, clip

Common phrases: crop the grass, crop a plant

To use land to grow plants that will be collected and used or sold.

• They crop this field every year.
• The land was cropped with wheat last season.
• Farmers crop the lower fields more often.

How to use it: crop something with something (They crop the fields with barley.)

Similar words: cultivate

Common phrases: crop a field, crop the land