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Definition of Crop

Crop The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest. Grain or other product of the field while standing. Anything cut off or gathered. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop. A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. Tin ore prepared for smelting. Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field. To yield harvest. Related Definitions: Act, Anything, As, At, Bear, Bite, Browse, Carved, Cause, Close, Convict, Craw, Crop, Cropped, Cut, Cutting, Earth, End, Enlargement, Especially, Field, Fig, Finial, Food, For, From, Fruit, Gathered, Grain, Gullet, Hair, Harvest, If, In, Instead, Is, Kind, Lash, Loop, Mow, Of, Off, Or, Ore, Ornament, Other, Outcrop, Part, Plant, Planted, Pluck, Prepared, Product, Projecting, Pull, Reap, Receptacle, Riding, Seam, Season, Serving, Short, Single, Smelting, So, Specifically, Standing, Stone, Style, Surface, That, The, Tin, To, Top, Tree, Vein, What, Which, While, Whip, With, Yield

Crop Quotations Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. Plato The heavier crop is ever in others' fields. Ovid When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. Ayn Rand Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop. Ovid There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations. Charles E. Wilson

Crop Translations crop in German is Ernte crop in Italian is raccolto crop in Latin is proventus, messis, ingluvies crop in Norwegian is avling crop in Spanish is siega

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