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crop

In agriculture, a plant or plant product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. By use, crops fall into six categories: food crops, for human consumption (e.g., wheat, potatoes); feed crops, for livestock consumption (e.g., oats, alfalfa); fibre crops, for cordage and textiles (e.g., cotton, hemp); oil crops, for consumption or industrial uses (e.g., cottonseed, corn); ornamental crops, for landscape gardening (e.g., dogwood, azalea); and industrial and secondary crops, for various personal and industrial uses (e.g., rubber, tobacco).

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crop

1. short for riding crop

2. 

a. a pouchlike expanded part of the oesophagus of birds, in which food is stored or partially digested before passing on to the gizzard

b. a similar structure in insects, earthworms, and other invertebrates

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crop [kräp]

(agriculture)

A plant or animal grown for its commercial value.

(metallurgy)

Defective end portion of an ingot which is removed for scrap before rolling the ingot.

(vertebrate zoology)

A distensible saccular diverticulum near the lower end of the esophagus of birds which serves to hold and soften food before passage into the stomach.