Definition of "crop" []

• Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group: Wheat is a common crop. (noun)
• The total yield of such produce in a particular season or place: an orchard that produced a huge crop of apples last year. (noun)
• A group, quantity, or supply appearing at one time: a crop of new ideas. (noun)
• A short haircut. (noun)
• An earmark on an animal. (noun)

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• "But these men, who have been paid up in full for last year's crop, and have seen that their crop, slim as it was, brought them a fair compensation, are bound to show _a crop_ this year."
• "The poppies with which this Isis was crowned, signified the joy men received at their first abundant crop, the word which signifies a _double crop_, being also a name for the _poppy_."
• "In our country the crop that is most valuable and that occupies the greatest land area is generally known as the _grass crop_."