Plant vs. Crop

Plantnoun

(botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.

Plantnoun

(botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.

Plantnoun

(ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.

Plantnoun

Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.

Plantnoun

A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.

Plantnoun

An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.

Plantnoun

Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).

Plantnoun

A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.

Plantnoun

(snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.

Plantnoun

(uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.

Plantnoun

(obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

Plantnoun

(obsolete) The sole of the foot.

Plantnoun

A plan; a swindle; a trick.

Plantnoun

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

Plantnoun

A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

Plantverb

(transitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.

Plantverb

(transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.

Plantverb

(transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

Plantverb

To place in the ground.

Plantverb

To furnish or supply with plants.

Plantverb

To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

Plantverb

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.

Plantverb

To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.

Plantverb

To set up; to install; to instate.

Plantnoun

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

Plantnoun

A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

Plantnoun

The sole of the foot.

Plantnoun

The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.

Plantnoun

A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.

Plantnoun

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

Plantverb

To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.

Plantverb

To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.

Plantverb

To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.

Plantverb

To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

Plantverb

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.

Plantverb

To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.

Plantverb

To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.

Plantverb

To set up; to install; to instate.

Plantverb

To perform the act of planting.

Plantnoun

buildings for carrying on industrial labor;

Plantnoun

a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

Plantnoun

something planted secretly for discovery by another;

Plantnoun

an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience

Plantverb

put or set (seeds or seedlings) into the ground;

Plantverb

fix or set securely or deeply;

Plantverb

set up or lay the groundwork for;

Plantverb

place into a river;

Plantverb

place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive;

Plantverb

put firmly in the mind;

Plantnoun

a living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.

Plantnoun

a small plant, as distinct from a shrub or tree

Plantnoun

a place where an industrial or manufacturing process takes place

Plantnoun

machinery used in an industrial or manufacturing process

Plantnoun

a person placed in a group as a spy or informer

Plantnoun

a thing put among someone's belongings to incriminate or compromise them.

Plantnoun

a shot in which the cue ball is made to strike one of two touching or nearly touching balls with the result that the second is potted.

Plantverb

put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow

Plantverb

cover or supply (an area of land) with plants

Plantverb

place a plant in the ground out of doors so it can grow, especially after growing it from seed in an indoor environment

Plantverb

bury (someone)

Plantverb

set or place in a particular position

Plantverb

establish (an idea) in someone's mind

Plantverb

secretly place (a bomb that is set to go off at a later time)

Plantverb

put or hide (something) among someone's belongings to compromise or incriminate the owner

Plantverb

send (someone) to join a group or organization to act as a spy or informer

Plantverb

found or establish (a colony, city, or community)

Plantverb

deposit (young fish, spawn, oysters, etc.) in a river or lake.

Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular organisms, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, plants were treated as one of two kingdoms including all living things that were not animals, and all algae and fungi were treated as plants.

Cropnoun

(agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.

Cropnoun

The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.

Cropnoun

A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.

Cropnoun

A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease

Cropnoun

The lashing end of a whip

Cropnoun

An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.

Cropnoun

A rocky outcrop.

Cropnoun

The act of cropping.

Cropnoun

A short haircut.

Cropnoun

(anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion, or for regurgitation; a craw.

Cropnoun

(architecture) The foliate part of a finial.

Cropnoun

The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.

Cropnoun

(mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.

Cropnoun

(mining) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.

Cropverb

(transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

Cropverb

(transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.

Cropverb

(transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or image in order to frame the subject better.

Cropverb

(intransitive) To yield harvest.

Cropverb

(transitive) To cause to bear a crop.

Cropnoun

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

Cropnoun

The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a plant or tree.

Cropnoun

That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially, the product of what is planted in the earth; fruit; harvest.

Cropnoun

Grain or other product of the field while standing.

Cropnoun

Anything cut off or gathered.

Cropnoun

Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so cutting; as, a convict's crop.

Cropnoun

A projecting ornament in carved stone. Specifically, a finial.

Cropnoun

Tin ore prepared for smelting.

Cropnoun

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.

Cropverb

To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap.

Cropverb

Fig.: To cut off, as if in harvest.

Cropverb

To cause to bear a crop; as, to crop a field.

Cropverb

to cut off an unnecessary portion at the edges; - of photographs and other two-dimensional images; as, to crop her photograph up to the shoulders.

Cropverb

To yield harvest.

Cropnoun

the yield from plants in a single growing season

Cropnoun

a collection of people or things appearing together;

Cropnoun

the output of something in a season;

Cropnoun

the stock or handle of a whip

Cropnoun

a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

Cropverb

cut short;

Cropverb

prepare for crops;

Cropverb

yield crops;

Cropverb

let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

Cropverb

feed as in a meadow or pasture;

Cropverb

cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of;

Cropnoun

a cultivated plant that is grown on a large scale commercially, especially a cereal, fruit, or vegetable

Cropnoun

an amount of produce harvested at one time

Cropnoun

an abundance of something, especially a person's hair

Cropnoun

the total number of young farm animals born in a particular year on one farm

Cropnoun

a group or amount of related people or things appearing or occurring at one time

Cropnoun

a hairstyle in which the hair is cut very short

Cropnoun

short for riding crop or hunting crop

Cropnoun

a pouch in a bird's gullet where food is stored or prepared for digestion

Cropnoun

an organ resembling a pouch in an insect or earthworm.

Cropnoun

the entire tanned hide of an animal.

Cropverb

cut (something, especially a person's hair) very short

Cropverb

(of an animal) bite off and eat the tops of (plants)

Cropverb

cut the edges of (a photograph) in order to produce a better picture or to fit a given space

Cropverb

harvest (plants or their produce) from a particular area

Cropverb

sow or plant (land) with plants that will produce food or fodder, especially on a large commercial scale

Cropverb

(of land or a plant) yield a harvest of plants or produce

Crop

A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. Crops may refer either to the harvested parts or to the harvest in a more refined state.