How to pronounce crop

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What crop means

noun

Most people know crop in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A pouch in a bird's throat where food is stored

In a sentence: The hen's crop bulged with the corn she had pecked up, saved to digest later.

Where it comes from: It is the same Old English word as the crops on a farm. Long ago it meant the top of a plant, and also this pouch in a bird.

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