field crop

Other forms: field crops

Definitions of field crop

1. noun

   a crop (other than fruits or vegetables) that is grown for agricultural purposes
   “cotton, hay, and grain are field crops”

   types:

   field corn

   corn grown primarily for animal feed or market grain

   Zea mays indentata, dent corn

   corn whose kernels contain both hard and soft starch and become indented at maturity

   Yankee corn, Zea mays indurata, flint corn, flint maize

   corn having kernels with a hard outer layer enclosing the soft endosperm

   Zea mays amylacea, flour corn, soft corn, squaw corn

   corn having kernels almost entirely of soft starch

   type of:

   crop

   a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale