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standing crop
noun
- the totality of living things in an ecosystem at a given time.
- a growing crop.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of standing crop1
First recorded in 1860–65
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Example Sentences
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.
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It is a machine drawn through the ripe standing crop by three or four horses attached to its side.
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It is properly applied only to the grass when cut, but is often also used of the standing crop.
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The corn eaten early in the season was undoubtedly from the standing crop.
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