the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered

the wheat crop.

the yield of such produce for a particular season.

the yield of some other product in a season

the crop of diamonds.

a supply produced.

a collection or group of persons or things appearing or occurring together

this year's crop of students.

the stock or handle of a whip.

Also called riding crop. a short riding whip consisting of a stock without a lash.

Also called craw. Zoology .

a pouch in the esophagus of many birds, in which food is held for later digestion or for regurgitation to nestlings.

a chamber or pouch in the foregut of arthropods and annelids for holding and partly crushing food.

the act of cropping.

a mark produced by clipping the ears, as of cattle.

a close-cropped hair style.

a head of hair so cut.

an entire tanned hide of an animal.

Mining . an outcrop of a vein or seam.

to cut off or remove the head or top of (a plant, grass, etc.).

to cut off the ends or a part of

to crop the ears of a dog.

to cut short.

to clip the ears, hair, etc., of.

Photography . to cut off or mask the unwanted parts of (a print or negative).

to cause to bear a crop or crops.

to graze off (the tops of plants, grass, etc.)

The sheep cropped the lawn.

to bear or yield a crop or crops.

to feed by cropping or grazing. ?

crop out,

Geology, Mining . to rise to the surface of the ground

Veins of quartz crop out in the canyon walls.

to become evident or visible; occur

A few cases of smallpox still crop out every now and then.

crop up, to appear, esp. suddenly or unexpectedly

A new problem cropped up.

noun

annual production , byproduct , crops , fruitage , fruits , gathering , gleaning , output , produce , product , reaping , season’s growth , vintage , yield , fruit , agronomics , agronomy , commodity , harvest , ingathering , plant , staple

verb

chop , clip , curtail , detach , detruncate , disengage , hew , lop , mow , pare , pollard , prune , reduce , shave , shear , shorten , skive , slash , snip , top , truncate , cut back , cut down , lower , trim , garner , harvest , pick , reap , browse , cut , cut off , fruit , gather , glean , grain , grow , haircut , maw , nibble , produce , rotate , vegetable , whip , yield