Added 8 October 2026

crop

/kɹɒp/ noun

In Latin: seges, messis, frux Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about crop at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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.
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?
The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!
A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.

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.