Dictionary entry details
• CROP (noun)
Meaning:
The yield from plants in a single growing season
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
crop; harvest
Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):
output; yield (production of a certain amount)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crop"):
fruitage (the yield of fruit)
Meaning:
A cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):
flora; plant; plant life (a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crop"):
cash crop (a readily salable crop that is grown and gathered for the market (as vegetables or cotton or tobacco))
catch crop (a crop that grows quickly (e.g. lettuce) and can be planted between two regular crops grown in successive seasons or between two rows of crops in the same season)
cover crop (crop planted to prevent soil erosion and provide green manure)
field crop (a crop (other than fruits or vegetables) that is grown for agricultural purposes)
root crop (crop grown for its enlarged roots: e.g. beets; potatoes; turnips)
Meaning:
A collection of people or things appearing together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas
Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Meaning:
The output of something in a season
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Context example:
the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores
Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):
end product; output (final product; the things produced)
Meaning:
The stock or handle of a whip
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):
grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)
Holonyms ("crop" is a part of...):
whip (an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping)
Meaning:
A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
craw; crop
Hypernyms ("crop" is a kind of...):
breadbasket; stomach; tum; tummy (an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion)
• CROP (verb)
Meaning:
Cut short
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
She wanted her hair cropped short
Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):
cut (shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Prepare for crops
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Synonyms:
crop; cultivate; work
Context examples:
Work the soil / cultivate the land
Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):
fix; gear up; prepare; ready; set; set up (make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc)
Domain category:
agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crop"):
overcrop; overcultivate (to exhaust by excessive cultivation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Yield crops
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Context example:
This land crops well
Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):
bear; turn out (bring forth,)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
pasture; graze; crop
Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):
feed; give (give food to)
Domain category:
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crop"):
grass (feed with grass)
drift (drive slowly and far afield for grazing)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They crop the animals
Meaning:
Feed as in a meadow or pasture
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
graze; pasture; browse; crop; range
Context example:
the herd was grazing
Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):
eat; feed (take in food; used of animals only)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
The animals crop
Meaning:
Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
prune; snip; lop; cut back; clip; crop; trim; dress
Context example:
dress the plants in the garden
Hypernyms (to "crop" is one way to...):
thin out (make sparse)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crop"):
disbud (thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers)
pinch; top (cut the top off)
poll; pollard (convert into a pollard)
shear (cut with shears)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They crop the trees
