An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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1a) Cultivated plants or agricultural produce, such as grain, vegetables, or fruit, considered as a group (e.g. a wheat crop, farmers harvest crop).
1b) The total yield of such produce in a particular season or place.
2) To harvest (TheFreeDictionary.com).

M.E. crop, croppe, from O.E. cropp "head or top of a sprout or herb, any part of a medicinal plant except the root," also "bird's craw," cognate with O.H.G. kropf, Du. krop "crop."

Kâšâr, literally "yield of cultivating," from kâš, contratction of kâšt-, kâštan "to cultivate, plant, sow," + âr contraction of âvar present stem of âvardan "to bring; to cause, produce," → format.

Controlling unit of a microcomputer; laid out on a tiny silicon chip and containing the logical elements for handling data, performing calculations, carrying out stored instructions, etc.

→ micro-; → processor.

Emergence of a particular rock-body, e.g. a stratium or vein, at the ground surface. Outcrops can be formed naturally or by human action. Stream erosion and highway construction can produce outcrops.

Noun use of crop out, from crop, from M.E., O.E. cropp "bird's craw," also "head or top of a sprout or herb;" → out.

Borunzad, literally "strike out," from borun, birun, → out, + zad, zadan "to strike, beat," from Mid.Pers. zatan, žatan; O.Pers./Av. jan-, gan- "to strike, hit, smite, kill" (jantar- "smiter"); cf. Skt. han- "to strike, beat" (hantar- "smiter, killer"); Gk. theinein "to strike;" L. fendere "to strike, push;" Gmc. *gundjo "war, battle;" PIE *g^when- "to strike, kill."