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CROP
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Irregular inflected forms: cropped , cropping
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):
breadbasket; stomach; tum; tummy (an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The stock or handle of a whip
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):
grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)
Holonyms ("crop" is a part of...):
whip (an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The output of something in a season
Example:
the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):
end product; output (final product; the things produced)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A collection of people or things appearing together
Example:
the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):
flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crop"):
cash crop (a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco))
catch crop (a crop that grows quickly (e.g. lettuce) and can be planted between two regular crops grown in successive seasons or between two rows of crops in the same season)
cover crop (crop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure)
field crop (a crop (other than fruits or vegetables) that is grown for agricultural purposes)
root crop (crop grown for its enlarged roots: e.g. beets; potatoes; turnips)
Sense 6
Meaning:
The yield from plants in a single growing season
Synonyms:
crop; harvest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):
output; yield (production of a certain amount)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crop"):
fruitage (the yield of fruit)
Derivation:
crop (cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of)
crop (yield crops)
crop (prepare for crops)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they crop ... he / she / it crops
Past simple: cropped
Past participle: cropped
-ing form: cropping
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
Example:
dress the plants in the garden
Synonyms:
clip; crop; cut back; dress; lop; prune; snip; trim
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):
thin out (make sparse)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crop"):
shear (cut with shears)
poll; pollard (convert into a pollard)
disbud (thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They crop the trees
Derivation:
crop (the yield from plants in a single growing season)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cut short
Example:
She wanted her hair cropped short
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):
cut (shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Feed as in a meadow or pasture
Example:
the herd was grazing
Synonyms:
browse; crop; graze; pasture; range
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):
eat; feed (take in food; used of animals only)
Verb group:
range (let eat)
crop; graze; pasture (let feed in a field or pasture or meadow)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
The animals crop
Sense 4
Meaning:
Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
Synonyms:
crop; graze; pasture
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):
feed; give (give food to)
Verb group:
browse; crop; graze; pasture; range (feed as in a meadow or pasture)
Domain category:
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crop"):
grass (feed with grass)
drift (drive slowly and far afield for grazing)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They crop the animals
Sense 5
Meaning:
Yield crops
Example:
This land crops well
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
crop (the yield from plants in a single growing season)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Prepare for crops
Example:
cultivate the land
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):
fix; gear up; prepare; ready; set; set up (make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc)
Verb group:
knead; work (make uniform)
Domain category:
agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crop"):
overcrop; overcultivate (to exhaust by excessive cultivation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
crop (the yield from plants in a single growing season)
Context examples:
Dibromochloropropane is a formerly known pesticide that was used as a soil fumigant and nematocide on crops, and is currently only used as an intermediate in organic synthesis and as a research chemical.
(Dibromochloropropane, NCI Thesaurus)
Rising levels of planet-warming gases may reduce key nutrient levels in food crops, according to a new study.
(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)
The Great Dane is a giant dog with a long narrow head and ears that are either cropped rather long, pointed, and carried erect, or left natural.
(Great Dane, NCI Thesaurus)
Over time, colonies have become even more susceptible, and viruses became among the chief threats to the important pollinators for crops on which people rely.
(Mushroom Extract Could Help Save Bees from Virus, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Our current understanding of how plants successfully defend against disease-causing pathogens mainly originates from studying economically important crop plants and a small number of closely-related flowering plant model systems.
(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)
It's a process similar to what happened tens of millions of years later with humans and domesticated crops and livestock.
(Researchers discover oldest evidence of 'farming' by insects, NSF)
Kestrels consume crop pests such as grasshoppers, rodents and European starlings.
(American kestrels, most common predatory birds in U.S., can reduce need for pesticide use, National Science Foundation)
They then assessed control strategies for large and small farms under three scenarios: no management of disease, management without crop rotation and management with crop rotation.
(Researchers model ways to control deadly maize disease, SciDev.Net)
This is particularly significant in times of global warming, where there is an urgent need to breed more resilient crops.
(Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops, University of Cambridge)
The ears are usually cropped and then taped for a couple of months to make them stand up.
(Doberman Pinscher, NCI Thesaurus)
