cropped

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. (of land or soil) used for growing crops“cropped soil”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Intercrop \In"ter*crop`\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. -cropped; p. pr. & vb. n. -cropping.] (Agric.) To cultivate by planting simultaneous crops in alternate rows; as, to intercrop an orchard. Also, to use for catch crops at seasons when the ground is not covered by crops of the regular rotation. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Crop \Crop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cropped (kr[o^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Cropping.]

1.To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap. [1913 Webster]

I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.— Ezek. xvii. 22.[1913 Webster]

2.Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest. [1913 Webster]

Death . . . .crops the growing boys.— Creech.[1913 Webster]

3.To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field. [1913 Webster]

4.to cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop her photograph up to the shoulders. [PJC]

cropped \cropped\ adj.

1.cut very short; as, her cropped hair. [WordNet 1.5]

2.having an unnecessary portion at the edges cut off; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images. [PJC]

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