What is the meaning of crop?

noun

• The yield from plants in a single growing season.
  • synonyms: harvest
• A cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale.
• A collection of people or things appearing together.
  • usage: "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"
• The output of something in a season.
  • usage: "the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores"
• The stock or handle of a whip.
• A pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food.
  • synonyms: craw

verb

• Cut short.
  • usage: "She wanted her hair cropped short"
• Prepare for crops.
  • usage: "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"
  • synonyms: cultivate, work
• Yield crops.
  • usage: "This land crops well"
• Let feed in a field or pasture or meadow.
  • synonyms: graze, pasture
• Feed as in a meadow or pasture.
  • usage: "the herd was grazing"
  • synonyms: browse, graze, range, pasture
• Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.
  • usage: "dress the plants in the garden"
  • synonyms: snip, clip, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back