crop
n. countablen. a plant that is grown in large amounts by farmers, usually for food like wheat or corn.
n. a cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable.
The farmers are busy harvesting the potato crop.
Heavy rains during the spring months resulted in a record-breaking wheat crop for the region.
Agricultural scientists are developing drought-resistant varieties to ensure a stable crop yield despite the increasingly unpredictable weather patterns affecting the valley.
From Middle English crop, croppe, from Old English crop, 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”). 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.
From Middle English croppen (“to cut, pluck and eat”), from Old English *croppian. Cognate with Scots crap (“to crop”), Dutch kroppen (“to cram, digest”), Low German kröppen (“to cut, crop, stuff the craw”), German kröpfen (“to crop”), Icelandic kroppa (“to cut, crop, pick”). Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1.
Commonly used in the singular to refer to the total harvest of a specific season or year.