standing crop
Americannoun
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the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
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a growing crop.
Etymology
Origin of standing crop
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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"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
As these last are harvested the feeding area of the buntings becomes restricted, so that eventually every patch of standing crop is alive with buntings.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas
Yet it was so in very truth, for Nur Mahal led Mowbray into the midst of the standing crop until they were out of earshot of the others.
From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis
As locusts settle upon a standing crop, so did the army of liberators descend upon the shops of San Antonio de los Banos.
From Rainbow's End by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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