standing crop

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noun

the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.

a growing crop.

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Origin of standing crop

First recorded in 1860–65

Words nearby standing crop

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How to use standing crop in a sentence

Here and there we came upon a field white with the poppy of the opium plant, or with a tall, standing crop of castor-oil shrub.
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water|Lady (Ethel Gwendoline [Moffatt]) Vincent
It is a machine drawn through the ripe standing crop by three or four horses attached to its side.
Wheat Growing in Australia|Australia Department of External Affairs
It is properly applied only to the grass when cut, but is often also used of the standing crop.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 1|Various
The corn eaten early in the season was undoubtedly from the standing crop.
Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas|Dwight Platt