CROPPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cropped mean? 

• CROPPED (adjective)
  The adjective CROPPED has 1 sense:

1. (of land or soil) used for growing crops

  Familiarity information: CROPPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROPPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of land or soil) used for growing crops

Context example:

cropped soil

Similar:

planted (set in the soil for growth)

 Context examples 

The ears are usually cropped and then taped for a couple of months to make them stand up.

(Doberman Pinscher, NCI Thesaurus)

The Great Dane is a giant dog with a long narrow head and ears that are either cropped rather long, pointed, and carried erect, or left natural.

(Great Dane, NCI Thesaurus)

The v-shaped ears fold forward when left natural or are cropped to a point and stand erect.

(Miniature Schnauzer, NCI Thesaurus)

Travel for personal or business reasons was not easy either, so as you enter this month, you may need to smooth out difficulties that cropped up.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

By nature he must have been a fair-skinned man, for his upper brow, where his cap came over it, was as white as mine, and his close-cropped hair was tawny.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Long before it was done, Mr. Trelawney (that, you will remember, was the squire's name) had got up from his seat and was striding about the room, and the doctor, as if to hear the better, had taken off his powdered wig and sat there looking very strange indeed with his own close-cropped black poll.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Cropped ears are high set.

(German Pinscher, NCI Thesaurus)

As everyone exclaimed, and Beth hugged the cropped head tenderly, Jo assumed an indifferent air, which did not deceive anyone a particle, and said, rumpling up the brown bush and trying to look as if she liked it, It doesn't affect the fate of the nation, so don't wail, Beth.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It belonged to a red-haired person—a youth of fifteen, as I take it now, but looking much older—whose hair was cropped as close as the closest stubble; who had hardly any eyebrows, and no eyelashes, and eyes of a red-brown, so unsheltered and unshaded, that I remember wondering how he went to sleep.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The young pugilist, who had a curious, lanky figure, and a craggy, bony face, passed his fingers through his close-cropped hair.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)