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?
A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.
From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English crop, cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), fr...
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To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
And the knave who refuses to drink till he fall, / Why the hangman shall crop him — ears, love-locks, and all.