Crossword clues for cropped
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cropped \cropped\ adj.
cut very short; as, her cropped hair.
having an unnecessary portion at the edges cut off; -- of photographs and other two-dimensional images.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: crop)
WordNet
See crop
v. cut short; "She wanted her hair cropped short"
prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land" [syn: cultivate, work]
yield crops; "This land crops well"
let feed in a field or pasture or meadow [syn: graze, pasture]
feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn: browse, graze, range, pasture]
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back]
n. the yield from plants in a single growing season [syn: harvest]
a collection of people or things appearing together; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"
the output of something in a season; "the latest crop of fashions is about to hit the stores"
the stock or handle of a whip
a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food [syn: craw]
adj. cut off as by clipping or biting off; "trees with cropped tops"; "cropped hedges"; "her short cropped hair"; "the cropped grass where sheep had browsed" [ant: uncropped]
(of land or soil) used for growing crops; "cropped soil"
Usage examples of "cropped".
Just a shade under two meters tall, with his golden hair ruthlessly cropped in the Academy bristle cut, he was a happy blend of the best in the Waldheim and de Gras family lines: Waldheim height and rugged strength, de Gras refinement and quick awareness.
He turned his head, its dark mane cropped close to the skull in the manner in which most of the natives Reeve assumed to be young wore their mane hair.
Every time he answered one charge or began to solve one problem, another cropped up to claim his attention.
Lunzie had cropped her hair practically short as most crew members did.
Egdril had very white teeth in a tanned face, a carefully cropped beard that was more white than black, framing a strong face.
From the crown of his smoothly cropped yellow hair to the gleaming toes of his black regulation-issue shoes, he was the epitome of the perfect Space Academy graduate: standing straight but not stiff, eyes moving in full awareness of what each of his companions was doing, even in this moment of repose conveying a sense of dangerous alertness.
She found the image from the dog-people's commune, and cropped out images of the six-packs hauling a clothful of small roots.
Some oddities have cropped up that require your particularly acute telepathic Talent.
You might as well get used to handling -- he paused, scrubbed at his close cropped hair -- "crystal.
He reset his infrasonic cutter and made a second slice, cropped it, sang again, tuned the cutter, and dug the blade in six neat slashes downward.
A dark colourwash and a quick weave altered his hairstyle to shaggily long with a parting instead of his usual cropped red cut.
You are not Catten enough,” and he had tousled her cropped re-dyed hair.
They cropped theirs to a stubble: easier to wear under the hide helmets they’d adopted.
Of course, education in itself was designed to teach you how to solve the problems that cropped up in daily living, but for speciali ties you could really slim down to the essential skills required by each.
I suppressed my initial revulsion and nausea, cropped my hair even shorter, rolled up my sleeves, and got on with the job.