Crop vs Croup - What's the difference?
crop | croup |
A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
The lashing end of a whip
An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
A rocky outcrop.
The act of .
A short haircut.
(anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion, or for regurgitation; a craw.
* XIX c. , George MacDonald, The Early Bird :
* 1892 , , "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", 2005 Norton edition, page 221:
(architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
(archaic, or, dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
(mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
(mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
* Bible, Ezekiel xvii. 22
To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.
To yield harvest.
To cause to bear a crop.
The top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped.
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1835 , Charles Frederick Partington, The British cyclopædia of natural history
(pathology) An infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.
As nouns the difference between crop and croup
is that crop is a plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder or fuel or for any other economic purpose while croup is the top of the rump of a horse or other quadruped or croup can be (pathology) an infectious illness of the larynx, especially in young children, causing respiratory difficulty.As verbs the difference between crop and croup
is that crop is to remove the top end of something, especially a plant while croup is (obsolete|outside|dialects) to croak, make a hoarse noise.crop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crop, croppe, from (etyl) crop, cropp, .Noun
(en noun)- a crop of ideas
- A little bird sat on the edge of her nest;
- Her yellow-beaks slept as sound as tops;
- Day-long she had worked almost without rest,
- And had filled every one of their gibbous crops ;
- The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop .
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* (harvest) harvest, yield * (whip used on horses) hunting crop, riding crop, whip, bat * (sense, animal's) craw (in birds)Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Literally, to take off the crop (top, head, ear) of a plant. See Etymology 1.Verb
(cropp)- I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.
- to crop a field
Derived terms
* outcrop * crop upSee also
* * *Anagrams
* *croup
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) croupe, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, / So light to the saddle before her he sprung.
- The guib [a kind of antelope] is of the mean dimensions, or four feet and a half in total length, and two and a half high at the shoulders, but rather higher at the croup .
