crop

Noun

• a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

• the stock or handle of a whip

• the output of something in a season
  • the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores
    

• a collection of people or things appearing together
  • the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas
    

• a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale

• the yield from plants in a single growing season

Verb

• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
  • dress the plants in the garden
    

• feed as in a meadow or pasture
  • the herd was grazing
    

• let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

• yield crops
  • This land crops well
    

• prepare for crops
  • Work the soil
    
  • cultivate the land
    

• cut short
  • She wanted her hair cropped short
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  craw , harvest , snip , clip , trim , lop , dress , prune , cut back , browse , graze , range , pasture , cultivate , work