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  1. noun Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group: Wheat is a common crop.
  2. noun The total yield of such produce in a particular season or place: an orchard that produced a huge crop of apples last year.
  3. noun A group, quantity, or supply appearing at one time: a crop of new ideas.
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  • Must I understand from this, madam, that the goodness or badness of your crop is the scale on which your conscience measures your obligation to pay a just debt, and that it contracts or expands as your crop increases or diminishes? —  Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals
  • In the culture of neither crop were they much advanced beyond the Egyptians of the times of the Pyramids. —  George Washington: Farmer
  • Picking up the crop was a reflex action Where ;d you run into this weirdo Craig shrugged. —  Gettin' It On
  • Knew when a crop was about to fail, and whether new seedstock had been ripped. —  Asimov'sSF,December2006
  • Similarly, the late-planted US soya crop is also suffering. —  FWi - All News
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  1. Middle English, from Old English cropp, ear of grain.

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  1. from Middle English crop, croppe, the top or head of a plant, crop of grain, the craw of a bird, the maw, from Anglo-Saxon crop, cropp, the top or head of a plant, a sprout, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney, = Middle Dutch krop, an excrescence, especially on the neck, struma, the craw, maw, gullet, stomach, Dutch krop, the gullet, craw, maw, stomach, gizzard, = Middle Low German krop, an excrescence, especially on the neck, struma, the craw, gullet, the trunk of the body, Low German krop, an excrescence on the neck, struma, the craw, maw, = Old High German chroph, kropf, an excrescence, especially on the neck, the craw, Middle High German G. kropf, the craw, German dial. kropf also the ear of grain, a thick round head as of lettuce or cabbage, also a thick, short, dumpy person, man or child, etc., and in numerous other senses, = Icelandic kroppr, a hunch on the body (cf. kryppa, a hump, hunch), = Swedish kropp-, Danish krop-, craw (in comp. Swedish kroppdufva, Danish kropdue, pouter-pigeon. literally ‘crop-dove’), while Swedish kropp, Danish krop, an excrescence on the neck, struma, and the same in the sense of ‘trunk of the body, body, carcass,’ are apparently borrowed from Low German Hence (from Low German or Scandinavian) Old French crope, croupe, top of a hill, croup, or cruppe, French croupe (later English croup and crupper), the hinder parts of a horse; and (from G.) Italian groppo, later F. groupo, later English group, a knot, cluster, company: see crope, croup, crupper, group. Hence also (from English) W. cropa, craw (but Irish Gaelic sgroba, craw, are apparently different). The word has a remarkable variety of special senses, apparently all derived from an orig. meaning ‘a rounded projecting mass, a protuberance’; hence (a) the rounded head or top of a tree or plant, and sprouting or growing plants in general (including by a later development the idea of plants (grain) to be cropped or cut: defs. 1, 2, 3); (b) a physical excrescence on an animal or plant, especially the craw of a bird, whence the developed senses ‘gullet, maw, stomach,’ etc. (defs. 4, 5); (c) from the noun in the sense of ‘top or head of a plant,’ the verb crop, to take off or pluck the head, hence cut, etc., whence the later secondary noun senses (defs. 6–14).
  2. from Middle English croppen, cut, pluck and eat, as birds do grain (= Dutch kroppen, cram (birds), = Low German kröppen, cut, crop, = German kröpfen, crop, = Icelandic kroppa, cut, crop), literally take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant; from crop, n., 1. In the third sense, from crop, n., 2, 3.
 

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