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]