1
- a cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable作物, 庄稼（尤指谷物、蔬菜或水果）：
the main crops were oats and barley.
主要作物有燕麦和大麦。
1.1
- an amount of such plants or their produce harvested at one time（作物的）一熟, 收成, 产量：
a heavy crop of fruit.
水果的大丰收。
1.2
- an abundance of something, especially a person's hair（尤指头发）大量; 丰富：
he had a thick crop of wiry hair.
他长有一头浓密的硬直头发。
1.3
- the total number of young farm animals born in a particular year on one farm（农场一年的）牲口总数。
1.4
- a group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time（同时涌现的）一群人（或物）; 一批; 一系列：
the current crop of politicians
当前的一批政客。
1.5
- the entire tanned hide of an animal鞣制的整张兽皮。
2
- a hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short平头（指发式）。
3
- short for RIDING CROP or HUNTING CROP.
4
- a pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion（鸟类的）嗉囊。
4.1
- a similar organ in an insect or earthworm（昆虫或蚯蚓等的）嗉囊。
(cropped, cropping)with obj.
1
- cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short剪短（头发等）：
as adj. cropped cropped blonde hair.剪得极短的金发。
1.1
- (of an animal) bite off and eat the tops of (plants)（动物）吃掉（植物）的上部：
the horse was gratefully cropping the grass.
那马在欢快地吃着草。
1.2
- cut the edges of (a photograph) in order to produce a better picture or to fit a given space修剪, 裁切（照片）。
2
- （常作be cropped）harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area收获; 收割（庄稼）：
hay would have been cropped several times through the summer.
一个夏季可以收割几次干草。
2.1
- sow or plant (land) with plants that will produce food or fodder, especially on a large commercial scale（尤指商业性大规模地）在（土地）上播种（或栽种）：
the southern areas are cropped in cotton
南方地区种上了棉花
as adj., with submodifier (cropped) intensively cropped areas密集种植的地区。
2.2
- no obj.(of land or a plant) yield a harvest of plants or produce（土地或植物）收获; 收成：
the parsley will need protection to continue cropping through the winter.
欧芹需要保护才能在整个冬季不断有所收获。
词源
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to German Kropf. From Old English to the late 18th cent. there existed a sense 'flower head, ear of corn', giving rise to sense 1 and senses referring to the top of something, whence sense 3.
短语动词
crop out
- (of rock) appear or be exposed at the surface of the earth（岩石、石头）露出地面, 露头。
crop up
- appear, occur, or come to one's notice unexpectedly意外地出现; 意外地发生; 意外地引起注意：
some urgent business had cropped up.
出现了一些紧急事务。