crop /ˈkrɑp/
 (vt.)剪切,收割,修剪,種植;農作物,產量,平頭 (vi.)收穫


 crop /ˈkrɑp/ 名詞
 嗉囊:暫時貯存食物的特殊區,農作物,產量,收成,林木


 crop
 剪裁


 Crop n.
 1. The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
 2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree. [Obs.] “Crop and root.”
 3. That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.
 Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop,
 Corn, wine, and oil.   --Milton.
 4. Grain or other product of the field while standing.
 5. Anything cut off or gathered.
 Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free,
 It falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee.   --Dryden.
 6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.
 7. Arch. A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial. [Obs.]
 8. Mining. (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting. (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
 9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
 Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]


 Crop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cropped p. pr. & vb. n. Cropping.]
 1. To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.
    I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.   --Ezek. xvii. 22.
 2. Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.
    Death . . . .crops the growing boys.
 3. To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.


 Crop, v. i. To yield harvest.
 To crop out. (a) Geol. To appear above the surface, as a seam or vein, or inclined bed, as of coal. (b) To come to light; to be manifest; to appear; as, the peculiarities of an author crop out.
 To crop up, to sprout; to spring up; to appear suddenly. “Cares crop up in villas.”

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 crop
      n 1: the yield from plants in a single growing season [syn: harvest]
      2: a collection of people or things appearing together; "the
         annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"
      3: the output of something in a season; "the latest crop of
         fashions is about to hit the stores"
      4: the stock or handle of a whip
      5: a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles
         a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
         [syn: craw]
      v 1: cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short"
      2: prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"
         [syn: cultivate, work]
      3: yield crops; "This land crops well"
      4: let feed in a field or pasture or meadow [syn: graze, pasture]
      5: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn:
          browse, graze, range, pasture]
      6: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the
         plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, trim, lop,
          dress, prune, cut back]
      [also: cropping, cropped]