crop

The word “crop” means a plant grown and harvested for food, feed, or other economic use. In plain terms, usually a farm plant grown for harvest, or the act of trimming something (hair, a photo) down to size.

“Crop” is pronounced krop (/kɹɑp/ in IPA).

Here is “crop” used in a sentence: “Wheat is the main crop grown in this region.”

Depending on how it is used, “crop” can be a noun and a verb.

The word “crop” comes from Old English. From Old English cropp, originally meaning the top or head of a plant, or a bird's craw — later extended to mean a harvest, and then to cutting things short.

“Crop” is a fairly common word in modern English, usually learned at around the B1 level.

“Crop” has 3 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: a plant grown and harvested for food, feed, or other economic use.

A crop is a plant grown and gathered for food, feed, or other economic use, such as wheat or corn. A harvest is the act of gathering that crop, or the total amount gathered in a season. In short, you grow a crop and then harvest it.

A riding crop, sometimes just called a crop, is a short whip used in horse riding to signal or urge on a horse. It is one of the distinct meanings of the word, separate from the agricultural sense of a plant grown for harvest.

A crop is any plant grown and harvested for use, including food eaten by the farmer's own household. A cash crop is a crop grown mainly to be sold for profit rather than for personal use, such as tobacco or cotton. A cash crop is therefore a specific type of crop.