crop – English noun declension

English noun forms of crop

Noun: crop
Singularcrop
Pluralcrops

Sample Sentences

  • 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?
  • It was a good crop of oats this year. What a nice change after last year's crop!
  • The decade produced a whole crop of ideas about space travel.
  • The university had an exceptional crop of graduates in 1892, including three who went on to win Nobel Prizes.
  • And even if Anna Wintour wanted to invite a fresh crop of internet talent, who would she choose? Can you name anyone in the past year who has ascended in a major way? [2024 June 26, Stephanie McNeal, “Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To”, in Glamour:]
  • The patient had a crop of bumps indicative of chicken pox.
  • This indicates to the engraver that the subject may be cropped to yield the size desired, but it is advisable that the position for the crop also be determined and marked, else some essential feature of the copy may be cut off by arbitrary cropping to get the required size. [1924, Harry Appleton Groesbeck Jr., “Preparation of Copy”, in The Process and Practice of Photo-engraving, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, Indicating Sizes, page 234:]
  • She went from a ponytail to a crop.
  • Eton crop
  • From an inner pocket he produces a costly Ramillies Wig, shakes it out in a brisk Cloud of scented Litharge, and claps it on, with a minimum of fuss, over his ascetic’s Crop. [1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part One: Latitudes and Departures, page 227:]
  • A little bird sat on the edge of her nest;
  • Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;
  • That day she had done her very best,
  • And had filled every one of their little crops. [1871, George MacDonald, “The Early Bird”, in At the Back of the North Wind:]
  • The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop. [1892 [January], A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. VII.—The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume III (January to June), number [13], London: George Newnes, Limited, […], page 84, column 2:]
  • As the wildebeest shrinks, the circle of sated birds lounging in the short grass expands. With bulging crops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut. [2015 December, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2015:]
  • Cops, come and try to snatch my crops / These pigs wanna blow my house down [1993, “Insane in the Brain”, in Black Sunday, performed by Cypress Hill:]

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. Cognates
3. 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. See: Old English Nouns 'cropp', Dutch Nouns 'krop', German Nouns 'Kropf', Swedish Nouns 'kropp', Icelandic Nouns 'kroppur'.

Verbs referencing "crop"

English Nouns group, English Nouns cramp, German Nouns Kropf, Danish Nouns krop, Dutch Nouns krop, Old Norse Nouns kragi.