CROP Copy link • CROP 1. s. The craw of a bird, ingluvies. Fruits of the earth, trees, etc., messis (PROP. the time of the harvest and the fruits, etc.: that are gathered): fructus (the produce; IMPROP., the profit): seges (the standing corn; also green crops, before they are cut; also figuratively; but poetically, and rare in this sense): fructus arborum: poma, plur.; arborum baccae, and baccae only (produce of trees; opposed to terrae fruges); quae ex arboribus gignuntur. An abundant crop, messis opima; seges grandissima atque optima (Varr.): ubertas in fructibus percipiendis: to gather the crops, messem facere (of harvest): fructus demetere et percipere; fructus percipere: the crops have been very fine this year, magnum frugum fructuumque proventum annus hic attulit (after Plin., Ep., 1, 13, 1); hic annus copiam frugum fructuumque effudit (after Cic., Brut., 9, 36): abundant crops, uberrimi laetissimique fructus (crops of vineyards and olive-yards): the gathering of the crops, frugum perceptio: to sow crops, fruges or fructus serere: to store or house crops, fructus comportare et condere: vines with a large crop of grapes, graves fructu vites: to yield a good crop, fructum ferre; fructum edere ex se: vineyards yield a very profitable crop, uberrimus est vinearum reditus: to gather an abundant crop, large condere: this field produces a good crop, hic ager efficit plurimum: this estate produces abundant crops, hic fundus est fructuosissimus. A crop (= hair cut close), capilli detonsi, praecisi, etc. 2. v. Cut short, decurtare (to shorten by cutting): curtare (to shorten, to diminish): detruncare (to mutilate by cutting): recidere (mostly poetically and post Augustan prose: pilos, barbam, capillos): praecidere (e.g., capillos): to crop the hair or head, praecidere, or detondere capillos, or crines: to crop the hair very short, caput attondere (Cels., 4, 3; of cutting it away in illness): to crop a man’s ears, aures decidere (Tac.). To pluck or cut off (produce), metere: demetere (to mow, to cut off): legere (of fruit): sublegere (in case of too great an abundance on the trees): detrahere alicui aliquid (to take off or down): carpere: decerpere (of flowers and general term): destringere alicui aliquid (of berries and leaves together): avellere (to pluck off). Of cattle, depascere: depascere herbas: derodere (to nibble or gnaw off; vites): tondere (gramina, pabula, dumeta): attondere (e.g., virgulta, Verg.): detondere (e.g., salices, gramina, Nemes., Ecl., 1, 6): CROP-FULL, satur: plenus: cibo satiatus: exsatiatus cibo vinoque.