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crop (iou) and nephrostoma (medicine)


crop (iou)



crop verb. Infl. -pp-. Pa. t. & pple cropped, (arch.) cropt. ME.
[from the noun.]
verb trans. Remove the top or terminal parts of (a plant); pick (a flower or fruit). ME.
verb trans. & intrans. Of an animal: bite off the top of (grass etc.) in feeding. LME.
E. Glasgow The stony hillside where sheep were cropping. W. de la Mare His horse moved, cropping the dark turf.
verb trans. Cut off short (lit. & fig.); cut short the ears of (a person or animal) or the hair of (a person, a head); trim the pages of (a book); cut off or mask unwanted areas of (a photograph etc.). E16.
Carlyle By the hundred and the thousand, men's lives are cropt. A. J. Cronin A beard, cropped close on cheek and chin. Vogue Cropped black top.
verb trans. Reap, harvest; cull (animals). E17.
Nature The cropping of whales.
verb intrans. Bear or yield a crop. E17.
verb trans. Raise a crop on; sow or plant with a crop. E17.
SHARECROP noun & verb
L. MacNeice They won't crop their farms regularly.
b. verb intrans. Grow crops; work as a farmer. US. M19.
verb intrans. Geology. Of a stratum etc.: appear at the surface. Usu. foll. by out or up. M17.
verb intrans. Foll. by up: occur unexpectedly or incidentally. M19.
J. Galsworthy That nonsense of the separate room had cropped up again!
verb intrans. Foll. by out: come out or disclose itself incidentally. M19.

nephrostoma (medicine)


nephrostoma


One of the ciliated funnel-shaped openings by which pronephric and some primitive mesonephric tubules communicate with the celom.

Origin: nephro-+ G. Stoma, mouth