standing crop

American  

noun

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

2. a growing crop.

---

Etymology

Origin of standing crop

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

standing crop

"If I don't use glyphosate to ripen the standing crop before harvest, I have to use more diesel to burn, to dry the crop", he said.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

His own studies have demonstrated that stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in leaves end up, via shredding invertebrates, stored away in the flesh of salamanders — like “a standing crop of nutrients,” he said.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2014

If these invading waters were briny the standing crop would be killed and the soil perhaps made useless for several years until fresh water had leached out the salt.

From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

They will feed their horse on the standing crop, their men on the garnered grain,15 The thatch of the byres will serve their fires when all the cattle are slain.

From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell

Two or three narrow paths intersect the level of waving grass; the turf underfoot is as springy as peat, and the standing crop scents the June wind, rich with daisies and clover.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson