crop
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.
Example
“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?”
Other meanings
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.”
Synonyms
- harvest
A kind of
- output
Word history
From Old English "cropp".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “crop” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.