Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

specialty crop

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English

Syllables: spe-cial-ty crop
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of various crops cultivated for, or managed and gathered for, human use (in food, personal hygiene, medicine, or decoration) rather than as animal feed, fodder, or forage.

noun

Any of a category of human-use crops that include "fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops (including floriculture)"; "eligible plants must be cultivated or managed and used by people for food, medicinal purposes, and/or aesthetic gratification to be considered specialty crops."

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see specialty, crop: Any crop that requires some sort of technical specialization to grow (this sense exists but is largely meaningless and useless to initiates in agriculture).

Inflected Forms

specialty crops (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

crop § Hyponyms

Questions

What does specialty crop mean?: Any of various crops cultivated for, or managed and gathered for, human use (in food, personal hygiene, medicine, or decoration) rather than as animal feed, fodder, or forage.

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