Crop

What “Crop” means

Noun

1. 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.
2. The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
3. A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
4. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
5. The lashing end of a whip.

Verb

1. To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
2. To mow, reap or gather.
3. To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
4. To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
5. To yield harvest.

Where the word comes from

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.

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.

Business name ideas with “Crop”

Industries where “Crop” fits

We suggest this word for 2 business types and industries, including:

• Crop Harvesting, Primarily by Machine
• Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning)