CROPS | English Meaning, Definition, and Pronunciation

cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short

cut very short

• she cropped her long golden hair
• he wore his hair closely cropped

(of an animal) bite off and eat the tops of (plants)

eat tops of plants

• the horse was gratefully cropping the grass

harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area

harvest crops

• hay would have been cropped several times through the summer

Old English crop, cropp, of Germanic origin; related to German Kropf. From Old English to the late 18th century there existed a sense ‘flower head, ear of corn’, giving rise to crop (sense 1 of the noun) and senses referring to the top of something, whence crop (sense 4 of the noun)

a cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable

plant cultivated on large scale

• the main crops were oats and barley

a group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time

amount of people or things appearing

• the current crop of politicians

a hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short

short hairstyle

• she has her hair cut in a short crop

riding crop or hunting crop

a pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion

pouch in bird's gullet

• the parent waxbill partially digests food in its crop

the entire tanned hide of an animal.

tanned hide of animal