crop

About 17.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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?

2. noun The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.

   It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!

3. noun A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.

   The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.

4. noun A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.

   The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.

5. noun The lashing end of a whip.
6. noun An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
7. noun A rocky outcrop.
8. noun The act of cropping.

Similar words

harvest cultivate pasture prune range snip dress lop graze craw

Often followed by

of is production and in was up yields rotation

Word family

cropped cropping crops