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Noun
white crop (plural white crops)
- (obsolete, agriculture) A cereal crop; a crop which turns from green to white or yellow as it ripens
1837 August 15, “Explanation of Terms”, in The Farmers' Cabinet, Philadelphia, Vol.II No.2 p.26:22. White Crops—are such as become bleached, or turn white and dry while ripening their seed; such are all the various kinds of grain.
- 1870 Augustus Voelcker and H.M. Jenkins, "Report on the Agriculture of Belgium" in The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 2nd Ser. Vol.6 p.18:
- Commencing, say, with potatoes, the small farmer will afterwards grow two or three white crops in succession, and get in addition a catch-crop of turnips after rye (invariably), sometimes sowing carrots in wheat or flax.
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