Meaning of green crop | Babel Free

Definitions

A vegetable crop, as opposed to a cereal crop; a crop which has green leaves when harvested

obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“After opening from pasture, two crops of oats; one of any green crop, as peas or beans in broad cast⟳, or potatoes or turnips in drills, all with sufficient dunging; one of barley in broad cast⟳, sown down with rye-grass and clover seeds ; two in hay, and four in pasture. This rotation is completed in ten years. Many leave⟳ out the green crop, which reduces the rotation to nine years.”

“22. Green Crops—are such as continue⟳ green while ripening their seed, or till taken off the ground; such as peas, beans, cabbage, carrots, turneps [sic], &c.”

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