crop
A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock…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.
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» This bad weather will affect the crops.
Погана погода вплине на урожай. — deniko
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17 sensesA 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?
Feldfrucht, Erntegut, Getreide
посе́вposév, сельскохозя́йственная культу́раselʹskoxozjájstvennaja kulʹtúra
A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
Kropf, Kehlsack
зобzob
во́лоvólo
a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
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!
Ernte, Jahresernte
урожа́йurožáj
урожа́йurožáj, врожа́йvrožáj
the yield from plants in a single growing season
More meanings 14
An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
Gerte, Reitpeitsche
(figuratively)A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.
The university had an exceptional crop of graduates in 1892, including three who went on to win Nobel Prizes.
Jahrgang, Bündel
A short haircut.
She went from a ponytail to a crop.
Eton crop
Kurzhaarschnitt
A rocky outcrop.
Blüte
обнаже́ниеobnažénije, вы́ход на пове́рхностьvýxod na povérxnostʹ
The act of cropping.
Cropping
A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
Vielzahl, Vielzahl
The lashing end of a whip.
Geißel
A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
Ausschnitt
The foliate part of a finial.
Origin
From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plFrom Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English 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”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Doublet of group.
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