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crop (KRAHP) (noun)
1. A plant or plant product that is grown by farmers: The apple crop is better now than it was last year.
2. An area in the throat of some birds or insects; for example, ants, where food is stored for a time: An ant has a crop where liquid food can be stored and from which it can be passed on to nest mates by regurgitation.
2. An area in the throat of some birds or insects; for example, ants, where food is stored for a time: An ant has a crop where liquid food can be stored and from which it can be passed on to nest mates by regurgitation.
A crop is a pouch-like enlargement of a bird's gullet in which food is partially digested or stored for regurgitation to nestlings.
3. A short and thick quantity of hair on a person's head: Irvin has a thick crop of red, curly hair.crop (KRAHP) (verb)
1. To cut off the upper or outer parts of something: It is necessary that a barber crops Tim's hair before it gets any longer and we also need to crop the hedge for the same reason.
2. To cut off part of a picture or photograph: Gwen had to crop the photograph so it could fit into the frame.
2. To cut off part of a picture or photograph: Gwen had to crop the photograph so it could fit into the frame.
Tom noticed in the photograph album that there was a photograph of the crop of barley from last year.
The picture was a panorama which someone had tried to crop to fit the page.
This entry is located in the following unit:
Confusing Words Clarified: Group C; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
(page 12)
(Latin: green crop, grass)
(Greek: seed, seeding; a sowing; a crop; seedtime)