crop
/kɹɔp/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.15 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
noun
The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
noun
A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
noun
A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
noun
An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
Example Sentences
- "The farmer had to decide which crop to grow as his main bet for the coming year. Would it be barley, oats, or something else?"
- "It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!"
- "The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel."
- "The university had an exceptional crop of graduates in 1892, including three who went on to win Nobel Prizes."
- "And even if Anna Wintour wanted to invite a fresh crop of internet talent, who would she choose? Can you name anyone in the past year who has ascended in a major way?"
- "The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox."
Etymology
From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English cropp, croppa (“the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb, a bunch or cluster of flowers, an ear of corn, the craw of a bird, a kidney”), from Proto-West Germanic *kropp, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“body, trunk, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to warp, bend, crawl”). Doublet of group. Cognates Cognate with Dutch krop (“crop”), German Low German Kropp (“a swelling on the neck, the craw, maw”), German Kropf (“the craw, ear of grain, head of lettuce or cabbage”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish kropp (“body, trunk”), Faroese and Icelandic kroppur (“body”). Related to crap. Doublet of group and croup.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /kɹɔp/
- British English: /kɹɒp/