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standing crop

noun

Definition of standing crop 

: the total amount or number of living things or of one kind of living thing (such as an uncut farm crop, the fish in a pond, or organisms in an ecosystem) in a particular area at any given time

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 Over 6,000 square kilometres of standing crops have been damaged, and farmers in the north of the country will not be able to replant their paddies. — The Economist, "The soaked subcontinentIndia and Pakistan are seeing more intense monsoon rains," 2 Sep. 2017

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First Known Use of standing crop

1861, in the meaning defined above

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