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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, idiomatic
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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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."
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Qualifier: strictly
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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