crop
/kɹɑp/ noun B1- A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose. · The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?
- The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants. · It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!
- A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time. · The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.· The university had an exceptional crop of graduates in 1892, including three who went on to win Nobel Prizes.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease. · The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
- The lashing end of a whip.
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
- A rocky outcrop.
- The act of cropping.
Plural crops
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“You are gathering your crop, sir?” said Monte Cristo, smiling.
They found no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and superabundant crop.
A WALNUT TREE standing by the roadside bore an abundant crop of fruit.
The brood had almost grown to their full strength and attained the use of their wings and the full plumage of their feathers, when the owner of the field, looking over his ripe crop, said, “The time has come when I must ask all my neighbors to help me with my harvest.” One of the young Larks heard his speech and related it to his mother, inquiring of her to what place they should move for safety.
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