CROP: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CROP?

Need another word that means the same as “crop”? Find 75 synonyms and 30 related words for “crop” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Crop” are: harvest, craw, year's growth, yield, produce, vintage, gathering, garnering, mass, mane, mop, thatch, head, bush, cloud, frizz, fuzz, foam, curls, tangle, chaos, cascade, quiff, halo, batch, lot, assortment, selection, collection, supply, intake, haircut, trim, clip, whip, lash, scourge, cat, thong, switch, birch, cane, stick, maw, gullet, throat, hide, pelt, fleece, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, graze, pasture, cultivate, work, browse, range, cut short, cut, shear, shave, graze on, browse on, feed on, nibble, nibble at, eat, reap, mow

Crop as a Noun

Definitions of "Crop" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “crop” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• An amount of produce harvested at one time.
• An abundance of something, especially a person's hair.
• A pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion.
• An organ resembling a pouch in an insect or earthworm.
• The stock or handle of a whip.
• A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food.
• A cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale.
• The yield from plants in a single growing season.
• A collection of people or things appearing together.
• The output of something in a season.
• A cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable.
• The total number of young farm animals born in a particular year on one farm.
• The entire tanned hide of an animal.
• A hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short.
• A group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time.

Synonyms of "Crop" as a noun (49 Words)

assortment	The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type. A great assortment of cars was on display.
batch	A large number or amount or extent. This should be run as a batch program from the process directory.
birch	Hard close grained wood of any of various birch trees used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood. There were calls to bring back the birch.
bush	Vegetation growing in the bush. Bush justice.
cane	A strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos reeds rattans or sugar cane. Raspberry canes.
cascade	A mass of something that falls or hangs in copious quantities. The greater the number of people who are well briefed the wider the cascade effect.
cat	Any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild. The cat went crazy on the horn.
chaos	The first created being, from which came the primeval deities Gaia, Tartarus, Erebus, and Nyx. Snow caused chaos in the region.
clip	The act of clipping or snipping. He gave me a clip on the ear.
cloud	A visible mass of condensed watery vapour floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the general level of the ground. After that mistake he was under a cloud.
collection	A sum of money raised during a church or charity collection. A collection is to be taken up for the Ecclesiastical Students Fund.
craw	The crop of a bird or insect.
curls	American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933.
fleece	A jacket or other garment made from a fleece fabric. The shed can be used for storing fleeces.
foam	A lightweight form of rubber or plastic made by solidifying liquid foam. Shaving foam.
frizz	The condition of being formed into small tight curls. Her hair was in a frizz.
fuzz	The first beard of an adolescent boy. He tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz.
garnering	A storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed.
gathering	The act of gathering something. A family gathering.
gullet	The passage by which food passes from the mouth to the stomach; the oesophagus.
haircut	A reduction in the stated value of an asset. Hair salons offering discounted haircuts.
halo	A circle of white or coloured light around the sun, moon, or other luminous body caused by refraction through ice crystals in the atmosphere. A halo of smoke.
harvest	The gathering of a ripened crop. A poor harvest.
head	Usually plural the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person s head. The head of the page.
hide	The dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal.
intake	The action of taking something in. Your daily intake of calories.
lash	An eyelash. He brought the lash down upon the prisoner s back.
lot	The choice resulting from deciding something by lot. They were an angry lot.
mane	A person’s long flowing hair. The horse was rushing about in the field tossing its mane.
mass	A large number of people or objects crowded together. A mass of conflicting evidence.
maw	The mouth or gullet of a greedy person. I was cramming large pieces of toast and cheese down my maw.
mop	A thick mass of disordered hair. Her tousled mop of blonde hair.
pelt	An act of hurling something at someone.
produce	Fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market. The work was in some degree the produce of their joint efforts.
quiff	A piece of hair brushed upwards and backwards from a man’s forehead. A quiff of white hair.
scourge	A whip used as an instrument of punishment. The scourge of mass unemployment.
selection	A plot of land acquired by selection. I make Dayflower the selection for the Irish 1000 Guineas.
stick	In field hockey the foul play of raising the stick above the shoulder. Every stick of furniture just vanished.
supply	The activity of supplying or providing something. The demand for tickets greatly exceeds the supply.
switch	A device which forwards data packets to an appropriate part of the network. His friends were surprised at his switch from newspaper owner to farmer.
tangle	A twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven. A tangle of golden hair.
thatch	Hair resembling thatched roofing material. A young man with a thatch of untidy blond hair.
thong	A backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe. She wore thongs in her quest for the callipygian ideal.
throat	A passage resembling a throat in shape or function. The throat of the vase.
trim	A short piece of film cut out during the final editing stage. His hair needs a trim.
vintage	The time that something of quality was produced. He never lost a vintage through frost.
whip	A quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object. A grass whip.
year's growth	A progression from simpler to more complex forms.
yield	An amount of a product. The milk yield was poor.

Usage Examples of "Crop" as a noun

• The main crops were oats and barley.
• The annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas.
• The latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores.
• The parent waxbill partially digests food in its crop.
• He had a thick crop of wiry hair.
• Failure to observe sound practice leads to a lamb crop at weaning of around 50–60 per cent.
• A heavy crop of fruit.
• She has her hair cut in a short crop.
• The current crop of politicians.

Crop as a Verb

Definitions of "Crop" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “crop” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.
• Feed as in a meadow or pasture.
• Yield crops.
• Harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area.
• Sow or plant (land) with plants that will produce food or fodder, especially on a large commercial scale.
• Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow.
• Cut short.
• Remove part of (a photograph or other image) in order to produce a better picture or to fit a given space.
• Cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short.
• (of an animal) bite off and eat the tops of (plants.
• Prepare for crops.
• (of land or a plant) yield a harvest of plants or produce.

Synonyms of "Crop" as a verb (26 Words)

browse	Feed as in a meadow or pasture. They reach upward to browse on bushes.
browse on	Eat lightly, try different dishes.
clip	Fasten or be fastened with a clip or clips. She clipped on a pair of diamond earrings.
cultivate	Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment. It helps if you go out of your way to cultivate the local people.
cut	Form or shape by cutting or incising. I just started high school and I have a lot of self confidence issues and as a result I started cutting.
cut back	Allow incision or separation.
cut short	Pass directly and often in haste.
dress	Dress or groom with elaborate care. Dress the salads.
eat	Eat a meal take a meal. She knew what was eating him.
feed on	Support or promote.
graze	Feed as in a meadow or pasture. Graze the skin.
graze on	Scrape gently.
harvest	Gather a crop as a harvest. The quantity of squid harvested has risen.
lop	Remove branches from (a tree. They had lopped some trees without permission.
mow	Cut with a blade or mower. Mow the grass.
nibble	Bite gently. He nibbled a biscuit.
nibble at	Bite gently.
pasture	Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow. They pastured their cows in the water meadow.
prune	Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.
range	Place or arrange in a row or rows or in a specified manner. Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as 2 billion.
reap	Cut or gather (a crop or harvest. In terms of science the Apollo programme reaped a meagre harvest.
shave	Cut (hair) off with a razor. The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood.
shear	Cut off something such as hair wool or grass with scissors or shears. The left wing had been almost completely sheared off.
snip	Sever or remove by pinching or snipping. She inspected the embroidery snipping at loose threads.
trim	Adjust the balance of a ship or aircraft by rearranging its cargo or by means of its trim tabs. Trim the grass using a sharp mower.
work	Cause to work. This old radio doesn t work anymore.

Usage Examples of "Crop" as a verb

• The parsley will need protection to continue cropping through the winter.
• She cropped her long golden hair.
• You can always crop the picture afterwards.
• Hay would have been cropped several times through the summer.
• This land crops well.
• The southern areas are cropped in cotton.
• He wore his hair closely cropped.
• The horse was gratefully cropping the grass.
• She wanted her hair cropped short.

Associations of "Crop" (30 Words)

agrarian	Relating to rural matters. An agrarian or agricultural society.
agricultural	Relating to farming or agriculture. An agrarian or agricultural society.
agriculture	A large-scale farming enterprise.
barley	A grain of barley.
barn	An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals. A great barn of a pub.
bean	Any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans. She picked up a rock and beaned him on the forehead.
carrot	Deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant. Carrot juice.
cereal	Foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses. A bowl of cereal.
chaff	Worthless things; rubbish. He hopes to separate scientifically supported claims from pseudoscientific chaff.
corn	Whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn. Corned beef.
cultivation	The act of raising or growing plants (especially on a large scale. The cultivation of bees for honey.
cultivator	A farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture. They were herders of cattle and cultivators of corn.
farmer	An expert on cooking whose cookbook has undergone many editions (1857-1915.
farmhouse	A house attached to a farm, especially the main house in which the farmer lives. A farmhouse kitchen.
farming	Relating to farming or agriculture. Farming is a strenuous life.
grain	Form into grains. A grain of sugar.
harvest	Gather a crop as a harvest. A poor harvest.
husbandry	Management and conservation of resources. All aspects of animal husbandry.
legume	A leguminous plant (member of the pea family), especially one grown as a crop. The new diet is high in fruit vegetables and legumes.
maize	Tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times.
pea	Used in names of plants or seeds that are similar or related to the pea e g chickpea sweet pea. Pea soup.
peasant	One of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers. Peasant farmers.
planting	A collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area. The landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner.
potato	The plant of the nightshade family which produces potatoes on underground runners. Roast potatoes.
reaper	A person or machine that harvests a crop.
rice	Force cooked potatoes or other vegetables through a sieve or ricer. Riced boiled potatoes.
seedling	A young plant, especially one raised from seed and not from a cutting.
wheat	Grains of common wheat sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal usually ground into flour.
winnow	The act of separating grain from chaff. The wind was winnowing her hair.
yeoman	A member of the yeomanry force.