specialty crop
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Noun[edit]
specialty crop (plural specialty crops)
- (agriculture, broadly) 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.
- (agriculture, strictly) 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."[1]
- 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).
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- See crop § Hyponyms